On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 09:07:29AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:35:38PM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > According to apt-transport-mirror(1), apt can do this on the client side. > > Once > > the MR for mirror+file apt sources is merged, we'd do something like: > > https://aws.deb.debian.cloud priority:1 > > https://deb.debian.org > > This seems simpler than fastly tricks, though I haven't ever tried it. > > It will for now introduce delays, as apt considers all errors transient. > > - Not in DNS? transient, retry. > - Nothing listening? transient, retry. > > Okay, it only retries four times after one second each. So in the case > we would need to kill the own entry, all "apt update" requests now take > five seconds longer.
Yea, that's not great- but it's better fallback than what we have today. Making the fallback transparent to the VMs sounds awesome, but is it a must-have feature? Ross
