Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 07:20:22PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> Yes transparent proxies or overridden DNS lookups could be used to
> direct deb.debian.org and security.debian.org to your alternative
> location,

I've been thinking for a while that we should bake a feature in apt
whereby a network administrator can indicate somehow that there is a
local apt mirror and that apt should use that one in preference to
deb.debian.org.

This could be useful for both the "I've got a slow uplink and would like
it to not be overwhelmed at the BSP I'm hosting for my Debian friends"
type as well as the "I'm an ISP and I want to provide a mirror to Debian
users so we can reduce our uplink connection a bit" type of situations.

However, I've not been able to come up with a scheme which is simple
enough to be doable on a LAN while at the same time be usable by larger
network providers, *and* which can't also be abused by MitM attackers.

Perhaps it's just not something we would be able to do?

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