Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > The only thing I vaguely understand about the difference between the > two is that httpredir.debian.org uses the traditional mirror network > whereas deb.debian.org uses the Fastly CDN (Content Delivery Network) > and there is some caching going on.
Fastly and Cloudfront are used > Because Fastly has local peering arrangements mirror choices are > supposed to be local (and hence faster). I've not noticed any > difference in a few short tests. You are correct. Additional bonus: deb.debian.org can also be accessed via HTTPS if you want/need to further obfuscate what you pull from mirrors. Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
