Our sysadmins have asked me to advise people about some upcoming changes to rsync and FTP access to releases.ubuntu.com. In order to distribute CD images more effectively, releases.ubuntu.com will shortly be reorganised such that it can only support access over HTTP.
If you need rsync or FTP access, please use the new hostnames rsync.releases.ubuntu.com or ftp.releases.ubuntu.com respectively.
Access methods such as BitTorrent and jigdo are unaffected by this change.
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Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Colin Watson on Fri Oct 2 18:44:19 BST 2009