After many years of serving the needs of our users, and some more of declining usage in favor of better options, all public-facing debian.org FTP services will be shut down on November 1, 2017. These are:
ftp://ftp.debian.org
ftp://security.debian.org
This decision is driven by the following considerations:
The DNS names ftp.debian.org
and ftp.<CC>.debian.org
will remain the same.
The mirrors should just be accessed using HTTP instead:
http://ftp.debian.org
http://security.debian.org
Our developer services will not be affected. These are the upload queues for both the main and the security archive:
ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org
ftp://ftp.security.upload.debian.org
The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating system Debian.
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at https://www.debian.org/, send mail to <press@debian.org>, or contact the mirror team at their public mailing list <debian-mirrors@lists.debian.org>.