We would also be interested in an alternative server to rsync from.

Best regards,
Andreas Paul

On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2:46:24 PM UTC+2, Chris Kuehl wrote:
>
> Is there an alternative server we can rsync from? We've been using ftpsync 
> (the recommended tool <https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror> for 
> mirroring apt repositories), which worked great until this was turned off. 
> ftpsync appears to be at least somewhat superior to the other options.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 1:54:36 PM UTC-7, Daniel Dreier wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday we put yum.puppetlabs.com and apt.puppetlabs.com behind the 
>> CloudFront CDN in order to accelerate downloads for overseas users. Both 
>> repositories have historically been served from the Linode Fremont 
>> datacenter, and download performance from Australia and Asia in particular 
>> are dramatically faster with the CDN than without.
>>
>> One side effect is that we no longer support rsync. Other tools like 
>> mrepo, reposync, and apt-mirror can sync to your local mirror via HTTP. 
>> Since you'll be accessing cached content from a local CloudFront edge 
>> location, HTTP mirroring should be very fast for most users.
>>
>> -- 
>> Daniel Dreier
>> Technical Operations Engineer
>> GPG: BA4379FD
>>
>

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