Dear Debian Mirror Admins, If you offer a mirror service for Debian, Thank you. Without your time, effort, network, and disk space this would be impossible. A few items: Syncproxy.wna is running out of disk space, we are in the process of moving to a new syncproxy and will update the list when this has started and the status. There has been some discussion about moving forward to push-mirrors only across the network rather than push-mirrors and leafs. Join the discussion in IRC or via this mailing list. - The mirrors team is undergoing a review and audit of our mirrors network. We are asking at this time that administrators please ensure that the information listed for your mirror is valid[1], that the mirror is available, and that the mirror is in sync with the archive. As we go through the masterlist of mirrors mirrors will be removed that are: *Failing: Host, network, or services. *Extremely out of sync with the archive. *Have unresponsive administrators or incorrect contact information. *Not in line with tracefile reporting. *Do not update or sync at least four times per day. Most of those are fairly explanatory. The most extreme of them being the new requirement for ensuing that mirrors are in sync with the archive by requiring an update of at least 4 times per day. This is being asked for several reasons: If the mirror is several hours out of sync with the archive the mirror is not considered by the redirector[2] and is removed from the pool of available mirrors, local users who seek out that mirror will send the mirror team an email which we in turn forward to you to sync your mirror which is an avoidable delay, and lastly, if the mirror is out of sync with the archive it is not a mirror it's an artifact. Please take this time to send an email to mirrors@debian.org with the current and correct administrative contact for your mirror. It is essential that we are able to contact you on occasion. It is ideal if your mirror uses the ftpsync[3] set of scripts, they have been tailored just for this purpose, are updated, and provide mirror administrators with the means of ensuring that their mirror is up to date. The scripts also provide our status and checker bots with the tools they need to mark your mirror as current. The mirror trace-file must report the time of the last update and be named after your server, the other information such as architectures is nice to see but not essential at this time. Come and join us on IRC! #debian-mirrors on OFTC. [1] https://www.debian.org/mirror/list [2] http://http.debian.net/ [3] https://ftp-master.debian.org/ftpsync.tar.gz Best regards, Donald Norwood -Debian Mirrors Team
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