The proposed and previously announced changes to the rsync service have become effective with the rsync://archive.debian.org address now being discontinued. The worldwide Debian mirrors network has served archive.debian.org via both HTTP and rsync. As part of improving the reliability of the service for users, the Debian mirrors team is separating the access methods to different host names: http://archive.debian.org/ will remain the entry point for HTTP clients such as APT rsync://rsync.archi...
