Re: ftp.gr.debian.org for debian-testing is down?

Hi,

deb.debian.org is operated by us and is available on https, so that's
what we recommend.

ftp*.*.debian.org are operated by third parties, we need to be able to
retarget these names at any time, so I doubt they'll ever get https.
Individual mirrors can of course offer https service at their discretion
on a different DNS name, as e.g. https://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/ does.

Cheers,
Julien

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:00:51AM +0200, Pavlos Ponos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> OK, now it's clear, although I always prefer using https.
> Could this be considered an improvement for future?
> 
> Regards
> Pavlos
> 
> 
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> On 11/30/20 3:31 PM, Estelmann, Christian wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     https is not implemented for any ftp*.*.debian.org mirror.
> 
>     You can find a discussion about why also in the list archive. See for example https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2017/09/msg00031.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2017/09/msg00011.html
> 
>     Greetings,
>     Christian
> 
> 
>     Am 30. November 2020 08:13:05 MEZ schrieb Pavlos Ponos <[email protected]>:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
>         It seems it works with http instead of https. Why so?
> 
> 
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>         On 11/29/20 2:37 AM, Estelmann, Christian wrote:
> 
>             Hello,
> 
>             try it with http instead of https. For the other things you are also
> 
>         not using https, so should not be a problem here.
> 
>             Regards,
>             Christian
> 
>             Am 28. November 2020 16:56:26 MEZ schrieb Pavlos Ponos
> 
>         <[email protected]>:
> 
>                 Hello mirrors-team,
> 
>                 Since last week I've been trying to run apt update but I keep
> 
>         getting
> 
>                 the following error message when it comes to ftp.gr.debian.org.
> 
>                 /root@debian-testing:~# apt update //
>                 //Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing-security
>                 InRelease [44.1 kB]//
>                 //Hit:2 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable
> 
>         InRelease
> 
>                 //
>                 //Hit:3 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable
> 
>         InRelease
> 
>                 //
>                 //Err:4 https://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian testing InRelease //
>                 //  Could not connect to ftp.gr.debian.org:443
> 
>         (2001:648:2000:de::211),
> 
>                 connection timed out Could not connect to ftp.gr.debian.org:443
>                 (147.102.222.211), connection timed out//
>                 //Fetched 44.1 kB in 33s (1,326 B/s) //
>                 //Reading package lists... Done//
>                 //Building dependency tree //
>                 //Reading state information... Done//
>                 //All packages are up to date.//
>                 //W: Failed to fetch
>                 https://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/InRelease  Could not
>                 connect to ftp.gr.debian.org:443 (2001:648:2000:de::211), connection
>                 timed out Could not connect to ftp.gr.debian.org:443
> 
>         (147.102.222.211),
> 
>                 connection timed out//
>                 //W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or
>                 old
>                 ones used instead./
> 
>                 To keep my system updated I'm using the
> 
>         https://deb.debian.org/debian/
> 
>                 instead. But as you understand the update process is really slow.
> 
>                 Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
>                 /root@debian-testing:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list//
>                 //
>                 //deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free contrib main
> 
>         //
> 
>                 //#deb https://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free contrib
>                 main//
>                 //
>                 //deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security
> 
>         main
> 
>                 contrib non-free/
> 
>                 Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.
> 
>                 Regards
>                 Pavlos
> 
>