Re: httpredir.debian.org retired snd moved to fastly or is it an alternative service ?

You seem to have somehow missed
https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2017/02/msg00000.html which
explained that change.

Cheers,
Julien

On 03/13/2018 12:59 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Thank you to the team for providing such a fantastic service over hte
> years. I was sort of bemused when saw that httpredir.debian.org was
> not giving any correct output.
> 
> Hunting around came to http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/
> 
> I also saw a small discussion at
> https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/69z49p/sources_list_httpredirdebianorg_now_redirects_to/
> 
> The only comments I saw on the list are on
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2017/04/msg00000.html and then
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2018/02/msg00000.html which
> basically comments that httpredir.debian.org is now dead/retired but
> doesn't tell/give any reasons to figure out why that happened.
> 
> I saw an interesting comment by lamby/Chris Lamb the current DPL at
> https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/69z49p/sources_list_httpredirdebianorg_now_redirects_to/
> as well as the homepage of http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/
> 
> I also put up the query at
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/429928/are-http-cdn-fastly-deb-debian-org-and-deb-debian-org-one-and-the-same-servic
> 
> So there are few questions -
> 
> a. Is the fastly service one and the same just having different url's ?
> 
> b. From what little I know of debian, they are constantly dog-fooding
> then why the move to a sort of commercial platform.
> 
> I did see an interesting comparison at
> https://blog.latency.at/2017-09-06-cdn-comparison/  but that's outside
> the topic we are discussing.
> 
> I guess all of this info. has been shared somewhere but in the vast
> lists.debian.org infrastructure it probably is not easy to find.
> 
> Look forward to knowing more.
>