Australian repository gone AWOL?

[Michael Fox]

Yeah I noticed optus was offline a day or two ago.. it kept giving
errors, so I moved over to someone that did work.

On 7/27/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:08:08 +1000
> Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what's happened to au.archive.ubuntu.com? I'm getting
> > connection refused errors when I try to update...
>
> The Optus mirror is down: from a reply I got ( Optus "support" )
>
> <quote> I can confirm that the server has been pulled offline at present
> for emergency maintenance. We hope this problem will be resolved and the
> service will be back online soon. Hopefully this will be completed in the
> next few days.
> </quote>
>
> Apparently Optus don't bother to have backup/ failover servers in place
> for this kind of thing...
>
>  au.archive.ubuntu.com is pingable, but produces error 111 when any
> apt connection is attempted.
>
> $ host au.archive.ubuntu.com
> au.archive.ubuntu.com has address 211.29.132.173
> au.archive.ubuntu.com is an alias for mirror.optus.net.
>
> I have temporarily changed my sources.list to point at
>
> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/pub1/ubuntu/
>
> I can't say I'm very impressed with Optus' attitude to this. Evidently it
> is not high on their priority list.
>
> Peter
>
> cc: to the ubuntu-au  list...
>
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