httpredir.debian.org, your mirrors redirector

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Subject: httpredir.debian.org, your mirrors redirector

From: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 14:16:44 +0200

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Hi, The Debian mirrors redirector, http.debian.net, is now hosted on debian.org infrastructure under the name of httpredir.debian.org. The service allows many of the nearly 400 Debian mirrors to be made available via a single address, adapting to your network location, IP family connectivity, and service availability. Quick facts: - 3, the number of hosts behind the service, for high availability - 3, the number of years the redirector has been serving users - 3, the number of times the traffic increases due to @hourly cronjobs - 4, the number of services superseded by httpredir: geomirror.d.n, mirror.d.n, cdn.d.n, http.d.n - 2, the number of years between Debian releases for the last 5 releases Your Debian jessie one-liner: deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main Many thanks to companies, organisations, and individuals contributing to Debian by hosting Debian mirrors, to Bytemark Hosting, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, Hewlett-Packard, and Jörg Jaspert for contributing the hardware and/or hosting the redirector nodes, to the Debian Systems Administrators team for their time and work on a day to day basis and for getting the new infrastructure setup, and to Simon Paillard, Donald Norwood, and many other individuals who have contributed along the way! Bug tracker: "mirrors" pseudo-package Contact address: mirrors@debian.org Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net