Shorewall.org infrastructure changes

Paul Gear via Shorewall-users <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:15:47 +1000
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Hi folks,

As most of you already know, we've been gradually winding down Shorewall 
over the past few years since Tom's retirement and the deprecation of 
iptables.

As part of this we're making some infrastructure changes:

 1. We've moved the shorewall.org web site to be hosted on AWS
    CloudFront.  At the moment if you hit https://shorewall.org/ you'll
    go via the Brisbane (Australia) POP, which might make it slow for
    those of you in other parts of the world.  Using
    https://www.shorewall.org/ should get you to a local AWS POP which
    should perform well regardless of your location.
 2. We're waiting on a DNS registration transfer to complete, after
    which https://shorewall.org/ should be identical in performance to
    https://www.shorewall.org/.  There will be a few hours of disruption
    to service after the DNS changes over.  I'll get these fixed as soon
    as I can.
 3. There are some minor differences in the index file format in the
    software archive in https://www.shorewall.org/pub/shorewall, but all
    of the files are the same.
 4. The country mirrors in Germany and Czech Republic listed on the site
    are still functional, but we'll be winding down the rsync service
    shortly, so they won't get any further updates (there are no further
    updates planned anyway).
 5. We'll also likely drop email support on the domain since it's not
    really needed any more.

Thanks to Tuomo Soini for hosting most of the Shorewall infrastructure 
for the past few years, and to the maintainers of the country mirrors 
over many years.

If there are any questions about the move or if you notice any errors 
with the site, please let me know.

Regards,
Paul

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    <p>Hi folks,</p>
    <p>As most of you already know, we've been gradually winding down
      Shorewall over the past few years since Tom's retirement and the
      deprecation of iptables.</p>
    <p>As part of this we're making some infrastructure changes:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>We've moved the shorewall.org web site to be hosted on AWS
        CloudFront.  At the moment if you hit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://shorewall.org/">https://shorewall.org/</a>
        you'll go via the Brisbane (Australia) POP, which might make it
        slow for those of you in other parts of the world.  Using
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.shorewall.org/">https://www.shorewall.org/</a> should get you to a local AWS POP
        which should perform well regardless of your location.</li>
      <li>We're waiting on a DNS registration transfer to complete,
        after which <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://shorewall.org/">https://shorewall.org/</a> should be identical in
        performance to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.shorewall.org/">https://www.shorewall.org/</a>.  There will be a few
        hours of disruption to service after the DNS changes over.  I'll
        get these fixed as soon as I can.</li>
      <li>There are some minor differences in the index file format in
        the software archive in <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.shorewall.org/pub/shorewall">https://www.shorewall.org/pub/shorewall</a>,
        but all of the files are the same.</li>
      <li>The country mirrors in Germany and Czech Republic listed on
        the site are still functional, but we'll be winding down the
        rsync service shortly, so they won't get any further updates
        (there are no further updates planned anyway).</li>
      <li>We'll also likely drop email support on the domain since it's
        not really needed any more.</li>
    </ol>
    <p>Thanks to Tuomo Soini for hosting most of the Shorewall
      infrastructure for the past few years, and to the maintainers of
      the country mirrors over many years.</p>
    <p>If there are any questions about the move or if you notice any
      errors with the site, please let me know.</p>
    <p>Regards,<br>
      Paul</p>
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