Re: Include Asian security mirror in sources.list?

"Asher Rosenfeld" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.mirrors
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Hi Axel,

Thanks for your reply.

I carried out some tests using servers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Seoul, Manila and Jakarta and found that http://security.debian.org always resolved to a US IP address, never to the one in Japan, where the Asian mirror is supposed to be located.

Hence, may I ask the people who are directly in charge of the Asian mirror to provide a direct URL instead of http://security. debian.org and let GeoDNS do the job.

Or, am I asking too much? in which case I apologize for it.

Regards.

Asher


> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 12:35 AM
> From: "Axel Beckert" <[email protected]>
> To: "Asher Rosenfeld" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Include Asian security mirror in sources.list?
> 
> By including the usual "deb http://security.debian.org/ ..." line.
> 
> security.debian.org uses GeoDNS to let DNS requests for that hostname
> to resolve to the IP of the nearest server or servers.
> 
> See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror and
> https://www.debian.org/security/faq#mirror
> 
> 		Regards, Axel
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