Official Australian Ubuntu "apt" Mirror ?

[Andrew Shugg]

Paul Schulz said:
> Are there any instructions on how or what is required to host a
> mirror?

I do not know for certain, but I think to be an "official" mirror (and
hence be in the .archive.ubuntu.com namespace) a site needs to mirror
the entire archive - and as I believe Edgy was released with another
architecture (sparc) as well as i386, amd64 and ppc, the UWA site was
unable to hold it all (and/or it was getting too expensive to pull).

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

Melissa has already posted the link to the Wiki page listing a number of
known Australian mirrors.  Maybe there's some way that this can be
brought to more peoples' attention.

> 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.

http://www.ucs.uwa.edu.au/web/contact  =)

> 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.

It would be nice to have a list of "Ubuntu friendly" ISPs I guess,
though usually an ISP having Ubuntu on their FTP server means that one
or more of their systems administrators likes Ubuntu, not necessarily
the ISP as a business.  =)

Andrew.

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