Re: Unable to ftpsync-cron from free.hands.com

Philip Hands <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:25:23 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user.mirrors
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

David Croft <[email protected]> writes:

> We are no longer able to sync from free.hands.com (ftp.uk.debian.org)
> since 25 January
>
> ftpsync-cron does a curl of
> http://free.hands.com/debian/project/trace/free.hands.com to check the
> current version. This worked fine for a long time.

Sorry about that, it was inadvertently changed when moving some sites
from apache to nginx -- should be better now.

TBH I don't think I even knew that people were using that name for that,
as I don't think I'd noticed the addition of ftpsync-cron (in 2017 by
the looks of it).

Perhaps I should change the trace name to debian.hands.com, which is
actually what the CNAME for ftp.uk.d.o points at, as it would have
continued working as it happens, but I imagine someone else's scripts
would then break.

> Or best of all maybe we can finally be allowed to sync from a
> syncproxy host so we can have a reliable upstream and not have to
> repeatedly disappoint users with mystery issues like this stopping
> updates every couple of years until somebody notices and guesses what
> the latest upstream should be.

Possibly better still: I do push mirroring and could add you to the list
if you like, which would mean that I also get the chance to notice some
of the things that can go wrong, and can then tell you about them.

Cheers Phil.
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|-|  http://www.hands.com/    http://ftp.uk.debian.org/
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