On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 08:56:55PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > This was redir.debian.org. I was very happy with it. I never understood > why we replaced it by something centralized. There were problems with it > and nobody was fixing them, but I think we have never been told exactly > what the problems were.
>From my memory: one apt session may requires many http requests. The redirector could send those requests to different mirrors. If two of those mirrors were in different states, apt would interpret that as bad data. This caused unreliable updates. Ross