Shutting down public FTP services

[Cédric Boutillier]

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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Shutting down public FTP services pr...@debian.org
April 25th, 2017 https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170425
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After many years of serving the needs of our users, and some more of
declining usage in favor of better options, all public-facing debian.org
FTP services will be shut down on November 1, 2017. These are:

* ftp://ftp.debian.org
* ftp://security.debian.org

This decision is driven by the following considerations:

* FTP servers have no support for caching or acceleration.
* Most software implementations have stagnated and are awkward to use
and configure.
* Usage of the FTP servers is pretty low as our own installer has not
offered FTP as a way to access mirrors for over ten years.
* The protocol is inefficient and requires adding awkward kludges to
firewalls and load-balancing daemons.


Information for users
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The DNS names ftp.debian.org and ftp.<CC>.debian.org will remain the
same. The mirrors should just be accessed using HTTP instead:

* http://ftp.debian.org
* http://security.debian.org


Information for developers
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Our developer services will not be affected. These are the upload queues
for both the main and the security archive:

* ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org
* ftp://security-master.debian.org


About Debian
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The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.


Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/, send mail to <pr...@debian.org>, or contact the
mirror team at their public mailing list
<debian-...@lists.debian.org>.