Bits from Debian

The proposed and previously announced changes to the rsync service have become effective with archive.debian.org hostname now being discontinued.

The worldwide Debian mirrors network has served archive.debian.org via both HTTP and rsync. As part of improving the reliability of the service for users, the Debian mirrors team is separating the access methods to different host names:

• http://archive.debian.org/ will remain the entry point for HTTP clients such as APT

• rsync://rsync.archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ is now available for those who wish to mirror all or parts of the archives.

rsync service on archive.debian.org has stopped, and we encourage anyone using the service to migrate to the new host name as soon as possible.

If you are currently using rsync to the debian-archive from a debian.org server that forms part of the archive.debian.org rotation, we also encourage Administrators to move to the new service name. This will allow us to better manage which back-end servers offer rsync service in future.

Note that due to its nature the content of archive.debian.org does not change frequently - generally there will be several months, possibly more than a year, between updates - so checking for updates more than once a day is unnecessary.

For additional information please reach out to the Debian Mirrors Team maillist.