Shutting down public FTP services

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The Debian Project                               https://www.debian.org/
Shutting down public FTP services                       [email protected]
April 25th, 2017               https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170425
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After many years of serving the needs of our users, and some more of
declining usage in favor of better options, all public-facing debian.org
FTP services will be shut down on November 1, 2017. These are:

  * ftp://ftp.debian.org
  * ftp://security.debian.org

This decision is driven by the following considerations:

  * FTP servers have no support for caching or acceleration.
  * Most software implementations have stagnated and are awkward to use
    and configure.
  * Usage of the FTP servers is pretty low as our own installer has not
    offered FTP as a way to access mirrors for over ten years.
  * The protocol is inefficient and requires adding awkward kludges to
    firewalls and load-balancing daemons.


Information for users
---------------------

The DNS names ftp.debian.org and ftp.<CC>.debian.org will remain the
same. The mirrors should just be accessed using HTTP instead:

  * http://ftp.debian.org
  * http://security.debian.org


Information for developers
--------------------------

Our developer services will not be affected. These are the upload queues
for both the main and the security archive:

  * ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org
  * ftp://security-master.debian.org


About Debian
------------

The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.


Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/, send mail to <[email protected]>, or contact the
mirror team at their public mailing list
<[email protected]>.


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