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Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN



On Sat, 08 Feb 2014, Simon Paillard wrote:

> > In the end it matters little how we achieve these goals, but we should
> > work towards them.
> 
> We disagree on this, but in my opinion, we already achieve this with http.d.n
> (except it's not DSA-sponsored and as consequence not official). 

http.d.n is a nice idea, but I think the redirects are expensive latency
wise.  Even worse, it fails the 'must not visibly break' requirement.
We regularly see broken apt-get runs with http.d.n in our sources.lists.

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