Official Australian Ubuntu "apt" Mirror ?

[Paul Schulz]

Hi Andrew et.al.,

Are there any instructions on how or what is required to host a mirror?

Should the Loco team be actively looking for more local mirrors,
and/or looking at where additional ones should be set up?

Local mirrors have been something that dirrectly supports Ubuntu in
Australia, and we should acknowledge those people at UWA who have
kindly provided this service.

I am also aware that some ISP's are providing mirrors for their
customers, and we should possibly acknowledge them as well, as Ubuntu
friendly.. and use this to encourage other providers to follow suit.

Just my thoughts on the topic..

Cheers,
Paul


On 12/9/06, Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au> wrote:
> Peter Garrett said:
> > I noticed some time ago that the au.archive.ubuntu.com mirror has reverted
> > to pointing at  archive.ubuntu.com .
> >
> > Does anyone know why this has reverted? Is UWA unable to handle the
> > bandwidth?
>
> I don't think there was any kind of official announcement, but I did
> hear that the server at UWA ran out of disk space, couldn't carry the
> entire mirror any more (as well as all the Debian stuff they have) so
> they arranged with Canonical for the DNS record to be changed away.
>
> I'd meant to find out more about it a month ago and inform the list, my
> apologies folks.
>
> Andrew.
>
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