❦ 26 January 2022 10:04 +01, Marc Haber: >>> Are the IP ranges of the Cloud Providers registered that badly that >>> deb.debian.org wouldn't reliably point to the mirrors inside the >>> provider's infrastructure? Or are the cloud providers' mirrors >>> differnet from what we expect from a Debian mirror? >> >>deb.debian.org is served from fastly and AWS CDNs - so it's outside of most >>cloud provider's infrastructure. > > So it is not possible to hook arbitrary mirrors into deb.debian.org > and we're dependent on Fastly and AWS here? > > I thought it was something more flexible.
This was redir.debian.org. I was very happy with it. I never understood why we replaced it by something centralized. There were problems with it and nobody was fixing them, but I think we have never been told exactly what the problems were. But I can understand how using an external CDN is less a burden than maintaining a redirector like our customn one or something like MirrorBrain (not packaged in Debian but used by many open source projects). deb.debian.org is just a CNAME to Fastly. At my location (France, 1st ISP, FTTH; was the same in Switzerland), Fastly is very slow from time to time (once every two months? less than 100 KB/s). Their support fix it in a day or two once you tell them. I have switched back to geographic mirrors: ftp.fr and ftp.ch never failed to deliver good performance. -- Use the fundamental control flow constructs. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)