Drush DL broken

Not much to go on here. I presume your network is working, or you wouldn't be posting issues. ;) Do you get any interesting information if you add the -d option? Are you using --package-handler=cvs?

yes, its very related to update_status. we rely on that module. once you fix that, drush will work.

I have the same problem. What was the solution to the problem?

In Drupal 7, PHP version 5.6.10 I was having this error whenever I ran "drush dl module_name" in the command line (terminal):

simplexml_load_file(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity "" Project.php:74
Failed to get available update data from https://updates.drupal.org/release-history/nodeaccess_userreference/7.x
Could not download requested project(s).

What fixed the problem for me was:

• drush dl module_name -d Running this command showed me that wget was missing
• Installed wget on Mac running this command brew install wget
• Restart server (MAMP or XAMP)
• "drush dl module_name" should work. If it still doesn't:
• echo "check_certificate=off" > ~/.wgetrc
• Restart server (MAMP or XAMP)
• Should now work

Thanks @tsmulugeta, solved it!

Thanks @tsmulugeta!

Thank you @tsmulugeta. Downloaded and installed wget (for macOS Sierra 10.12) from http://rudix.org/packages/wget.html