Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 1/26/22 10:04, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:38:00 -0800, Ross Vandegrift
> <rvandegrift@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:25:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:47:49 -0800, Ross Vandegrift
> > > <rvandegrift@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > The cloud team wants to make folks aware of a possible change to the cloud
> > > > images.  The team plans to register a new domain, debian.cloud, for mirrors
> > > > inside of cloud provider infrastructure.  For such mirrors, sources.list will
> > > > look like:
> > > >   deb http://<provider>.debian.cloud/debian/ bullseye main
> > >
> > > Are the IP ranges of the Cloud Providers registered that badly that
> > > deb.debian.org wouldn't reliably point to the mirrors inside the
> > > provider's infrastructure? Or are the cloud providers' mirrors
> > > differnet from what we expect from a Debian mirror?
> >
> > deb.debian.org is served from fastly and AWS CDNs - so it's outside of most
> > cloud provider's infrastructure.
>
> So it is not possible to hook arbitrary mirrors into deb.debian.org
> and we're dependent on Fastly and AWS here?

Correct.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)