[mirror-admin] push mirroring plans

[Paulo Licio de Geus]

Hiroyuki SHINBO wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> I have one question about this. Will you stop the "pull mirror" 
> system after "push mirror" system works?
>
> In our network policy, SSH access from outside of our network
> is prohibitted. I can not change this because this policy is 
> the decision of our company. So, our server may be stopped the 
> mirror if only "push mirror" is provided for official mirror.
>
> I think that debian provides both pull and push miror. If 
> possible, I would like to use "pull mirror" continuously.
>   

Just out of curiosity, would a ssh connection through a reverse ssh
channel (the central mirror initiating a ssh connection to a local port
forwarded to your mirror over a ssh channel created by you to the
central mirror ssh server) satisfy your policy? Convoluted, but
functional...

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