Re: Use and rules of debian.cloud
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
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