+1 to an alternate rsync service.

A lot of us already have tooling built up around rsync, so this change
breaks work flows. It also comes without warning for a service that has
been around for ages.

Best regards,
-g

On 4/24/17 7:19 AM, Andreas Paul wrote:
> 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
>         <http://yum.puppetlabs.com> and apt.puppetlabs.com
>         <http://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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