On Friday, 11 March 2016 3:07:33 PM AEDT Rhonda D'Vine wrote: > * Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org> [2016-03-10 13:37:27 CET]: > > And how do you know that, exactly? Without insider's knowledge I've > > noticed that services resolve to different IP addresses. > > Uh? I distinctly remember checking that some time ago and getting two different IP addresses for httpredir.debian.org and http.debian.net... > #v+ > $ host http.debian.net | head -1 > http.debian.net is an alias for httpredir.debian.org. > #v- > > That's how I know it, exactly. Thanks. I wonder when DNS change has been made... > Yes, I agree that they should have been updated back then. But given > that the service is unmaintained and because http.debian.net is just a > CNAME for httpredir.debian.org it won't change anything. At all. Except that it may help a little to remove obsolete http.debian.net DNS record at some point in the future. > > "deb.debian.org" is a fantastic service that works very well (as far as I > > can tell). I'm all for it but I'd like to see the announcement with more > > details about the service, who maintains it and their contact details... > > I think this might not be the time for it yet though, especially as > long as oldstable is still around (and I think not even jessie can cope > with it). I missed the "but the name has SRV records in DNS that let > apt in stretch and later find places" originally, and as long as we > don't even have that in stable it doesn't make sense to suggest it to > users of stable which are the target audience of backports. :) Yes, as I've already said earlier, "deb.debian.org" is for the future, not for backports yet... :) Thanks. -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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