[Nix-dev] cache.nixos.org. mirror

[Graham Christensen]

Note this won't require trusting me because the packages will still be
signed by upstream.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:38 PM Graham Christensen <graham at grahamc.com>
wrote:

> Looking in to this, I found Hetzner offers 20TB of bandwidth for servers
> which cost less than € 39.00.
>
> I'd be happy to provide a mirror on my personal hetzner machine, but it
> wouldn't be anything official. If things got over 20TB though I'd need to
> re-evaluate the offer.
>
> I can imagine a need for an official off-cloudfront mirror.
>
> Graham
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:05 PM Nikolay Amiantov <ab at fmap.me> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Apparently, recently cache.nixos.org was blocked in Russia[1] (not it
> specifically, but rather a bunch of CloudFront hosts, because something
> illegal was using it). I don't yet experience the block myself at home
> (seems my ISP is reluctant to actually abide by the law). However, I
> can't access the cache from a server which is located in a data center.
>
> Is there any mirror that is not provided via CloudFront? Perhaps we can
> workaround this by using some known-good IP addresses hardcoded to
> /etc/hosts. Maybe there are known non-blocked CloudFront hosts that
> other Russia-located people can share?
>
> I'm trying _very_ hard to omit my opinions here, and expect this from
> others -- let's not bring politics to nix-dev ^_^.
>
> 1: https://reestr.rublacklist.net/search/?q=54.192.229.127 (example for
> one IP)
>
> --
> Nikolay.
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