Not sure about the rest of you, but since I have no contract with Puppet Inc. 
specifying the maintenance of rsync services I would shrug and move to using 
apt-mirror. I've used it before and it's nearly drop-in.

https://apt-mirror.github.io/
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/apt-mirror
https://forge.puppet.com/jtopjian/apt_mirror

Pity about rsync service though.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:13:29AM -0700, Garrett Honeycutt wrote:
> +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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