ftp.acc.umu.se domain move

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Jon Turney wrote:

>>>> File archive host name:
>>>> 
>>>> Official name changes from ftp.acc.umu.se to mirror.accum.se. The old
>>>> host name will continue to work for quite some time (years), but new
>>>> deployments should move to using a non-acc.umu.se name.  Since we are
>>>> lazy sysadmins, we have also registered the ac2.se (ACC=AC^2) domain
>>>> and lots of aliases so ftp.ac2.se also works.
>>>> 
>>>> If you have references to other acc.umu.se services (for example
>>>> www.acc.umu.se), replace the domain part with accum.se (ie
>>>> www.accum.se).
>>> 
>>> I've updated this in our mirror list.
>> 
>> Hmm. Looking at https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html it seems that our old host 
>> name ftp.acc.umu.se is still listed?
>
> Yeah, unfortunately we currently don't have a good mechanism to migrate any 
> existing Cygwin installations which are configured with the old URL.

OK.

> Once that's been sorted out (or if it stops working first), I'll remove the 
> old URL.

I'd recommend removing the old host name from the mirror list, so new 
installs doesn't pick it up. That's what's been done for other 
projects.

/Nikke
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