+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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/d1c9a550-cc51-48bb-8d5b-3c6d4c5477b8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/d1c9a550-cc51-48bb-8d5b-3c6d4c5477b8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Garrett Honeycutt @learnpuppet Puppet Training with LearnPuppet.com Mobile: +1.206.414.8658 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f49fa010-955c-e17d-2232-95d530d80c45%40garretthoneycutt.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
