Re: Mirror not appearing on official mirror list even though listed on the Masterlist and sponsor change

[ab <andrea@abmanagement.al>]

Hi Adam!

> This is purely about ftp.xx.debian.org names for mirrors. The mapping

> between them and actual mirrors is manually maintained, and essentially

> they've become less generally useful / required with the move to having

> deb.debian.org exist on CDNs, and ftp.debian.org being an alias for

> that.

>

> The country codes for which those names already exist are likely to

> continue to do so, but over time more will end up being served by

> deb.debian.org rather than individual third party mirrors.

I don't understand how this would work for the Debian Installer, for example there's a "Greece" option in D-I, "Albania" wouldn't show up because it doesn't have a country-coded FTP mirror?

And, if you create the alias (and point it to deb.debian.org), would it hit my mirror or just the global CDN?

All the best,

Andrea

---- On Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:29:18 +0200 Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote ---

On Sat, 2025-08-09 at 13:51 +0200, ab wrote:
> Hi Adam!
>
> > Your mirror *is* on the list. It's the first in the "complete list
> > of
> > mirrors" section, and the only one listed for Albania.
> When I sent the email the mirror didn't appear on the complete list,
> but after restarting my PC for an update it shows up. It must have
> been the browser caching it or something similar. That's my bad.
>

Aha. :-)

> > Is the issue that Albania is not included in the first list of
> > mirrors n the page? If so, that is because there is not an
> > ftp.al.debian.org alias. While we could create such an alias, at
> > this stage we would likely simply point it to deb.debian.org, as
> > third party ccTLD mirrors are being gradually deprecated.
>
> Oh, that makes sense. But why are third party ccTLD mirrors being
> deprecated? (I'm guessing this means mirrors that aren't gTLDs are
> being deprecated, or is it just the ftp.xx.debian.org ones? If it's
> the former, I could make my mirror point to a gTLD.)
> >

This is purely about ftp.xx.debian.org names for mirrors. The mapping
between them and actual mirrors is manually maintained, and essentially
they've become less generally useful / required with the move to having
deb.debian.org exist on CDNs, and ftp.debian.org being an alias for
that.

The country codes for which those names already exist are likely to
continue to do so, but over time more will end up being served by
deb.debian.org rather than individual third party mirrors.

Regards,

Adam