"Philip Charles" <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> wrote in message [🔎] 200602231800.57085.philipc@copyleft.co.nz">news:[🔎] 200602231800.57085.philipc@copyleft.co.nz...
I have built up a fine-grained mirroring script over time which not only selects the architecture but also the version (stable, testing etc) to be mirrored. Unfortunately this script will require ftp/http access to ../debian-all. Is there any reason to restrict access to ../debian-all to rsync?
It looks like nobody else responded to your message, so I will. (IANADD)Allowing http or ftp access to ftp.debian.org/debian-all is somewhat dangerous. Anybody blindly mirroring ALL of ftp.debian.org via http or ftp would end up with
two copies of the major architectures.However, doing that is a stupid thing anyway, and Debian has no obligation to protect fools who do that.