Academic Computer Club (ACC), Umeå University, Sweden hereby announces
the intent to provide a download mirror for the Tor dist files.
ftp.acc.umu.se has 20 Gbit dedicated connectivity to SUNET, and enjoys
excellent peering towards Europe and US via NORDUnet.
Despite the name, the cluster is heavily optimized for http/https and
also provides rsync service.
We sync hourly from rsync://rsync.torproject.org/dist-mirror/
Mirror inclusion csv:
ftp-adm(a)acc.umu.se, Academic Computer Club Umea University, SE, Sweden, Europe, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, , , , , http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/torproject.org/dist/, https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/torproject.org/dist/, rsync://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/torproject.org/dist/, , Fri Apr 13 15:34:07 CEST 2018
(see also comments below)
* Mirror name
ftp.acc.umu.se
* Mirror organization
Academic Computer Club, Umeå University
* Mirror location
Umeå, Sweden
* Mirror speed
20 Gbps
* Mirror administrator (email)
ftp-adm(a)acc.umu.se
* Mirror access URLs
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/torproject.org/dist/https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/torproject.org/dist/rsync://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/torproject.org/dist/
*NOTE* that the cluster is highly optimized for http/https, so despite
the name we prefer to not publish clickable FTP links. Those who
really needs to use FTP can usually figure it out from the site name!
*NOTE2* that the cluster uses redirects to offload requests for large
files to dedicated large-file offload targets. Mechanisms that check
mirror status must not treat this as an error.
Some observations on the mirror list .csv
https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/plain/include/tor-mirr…
1) The .csv is in need of cleanup, there is a mix of
TRUE/FALSE/True/False/YES/NO/Yes/No that should be streamlined into
one flavour.
2) Most subRegion/region entries are most likely wrong? At least there
are different interpretations on what it should be.
3) The tormirror.snydernet.net entry is missing a region entry,
causing the rest of the entries to become misaligned
I'd recommend simply loading the .csv into libreoffice or similar to
more easily spot the irregularities.
An observation on the Tor download page
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en :
When clicking the download links it seems like the main download links
redirects to dist.torproject.org (which contains only torproject.org
hosts), despite the fact that there are closer mirrors available.
While this do offload the main site, it also makes limited use of
community mirrors.
Among the motivations for running ftp.acc.umu.se are the aim to
provide excellent service to our region, and omitting use of community
mirrors tends to defeat that purpose.
We strongly recommend deploying a mirror redirect service to optimally
utilize your mirrors. In addition to geo-aware redirection,
they usually only redirect requests to updated mirrors that
actually have the file in question.
Mirrorbits https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits comes highly recommended
by many projects that we mirror.
On behalf of the ftp.acc.umu.se admins,
/Nikke
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Hello. Please remove the mirror:
RU Soviet Anonymous creep.im
Due to some dumb Russian legislation, I was forced to move server to the
European VPS and thus can't afford 50GB+ space for mirroring
torproject.org. It was a nice ride though.
A
