[Please CC me on replies.] Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Josh Triplett > > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > I personally recommend using deb.debian.org. > > > > That works nicely, thanks! Seems to have decent performance. > > > > I couldn't find any announcement or documentation of this, other than > > that on the site itself, though I did find a use of it in a recent > > announcement of dbgsym packages. > > It's somewhat in beta yet. I should probably write up an announcement > about it.
Ah, that makes sense. I look forward to the announcement. When you make the announcement, can you include a link to the details of the CDN, such as the extent of its caching servers? That would help people determine if using it will likely produce good results for them. > > Does the CDN this uses download and cache packages on first request? > > Because I noticed when testing it that if I requested a package > > reasonably unlikely to have already been fetched, it would hang at "0% > > [Waiting for headers]" for a long time (minutes). But if I reattempted > > that same package later, it would download just fine. > > This was a bug and should be fixed now. (It downloads on first request, > but it streams, so there should not be a big initial delay.) Out of curiosity, what was the bug? - Josh Triplett