Hi Francesca,
On 2012-02-16 08:16, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
Hi all,
we've just finish to write the draft for another (yeah, we're quite
prolific lately, isn't it?) announcement regarding a new Debian machine
for mirroring the archive, to be sent on Saturday 18.
Indeed :-)
I'd appreciate a lot reviews and translations.
The announcement is available, as usual, on the Publicity subversion
repository at publicity/announcement/en/2012/2012-02-18-klecker.wml, or via
HTTP at:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/publicity/announcements/en/2012/2012-02-18-klecker.wml
Thanks in advance,
Francesca
One comment on the form:
The new machine is an 8-core Intel Xeon machine with 48GB of memory and a
total of 6TB (on RAID 10) of local storage.
There should be spaces between numbers and units (48 GB, 6 TB).
Nice little upgrade, BTW.
Other than the form, my only question is: what is the relevance of this
upgrade?
What is ftp.debian.org? It does not appear directly on
http://mirror.debian.org/status.html
kassia.debian.org appears, but with just 3 leafs. klecker.debian.org
also appears, with one leaf.
http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror says:
Many people seem to think that |ftp.debian.org| is the canonical
location of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to
mirror from that site. This is *not true*.
|ftp.debian.org| is merely one of several servers that get updated
from an internal Debian server. That address is presently located on a
single server in the United States, and it still exists mainly for
backwards compatibility.
I guess this is outdated?
http://wiki.debian.org/ftp.debian.org even goes further:
In the future, it may get services reduced, or shut down, or converted
into a globally load-balanced name, or whatever. Please don't use it.
If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name such
as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ...
Thanks
