In case people didn't see the announcment: -- The worldwide Debian mirrors network has served archive.debian.org via both HTTP and rsync. As part of improving the reliability of the service for users, the Debian mirrors team is separating the access methods to different host names:
http://archive.debian.org/ will remain the entry point for HTTP clients such as APT rsync://rsync.archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ is now available for those who wish to mirror all or parts of the archives. rsync service on archive.debian.org has stopped, and we encourage anyone using the service to migrate to the new host name as soon as possible. -- I am not responsible for any part of this, I'm just relaying the news. -dsr-