Australian repository gone AWOL?

[Kim Hawtin]

Andrew Swinn wrote:
> Michael Fox wrote:
>> Yeah I noticed optus was offline a day or two ago.. it kept giving
>> errors, so I moved over to someone that did work.
> 
> I was wondering whether there is some process for moving away from Optus 
> as the default Australian mirror?
> 
> Optus' mirror service is just so poor and this is a prime example. It's 
> definitely not a good look to have a freshly installed Ubuntu system 
> fail with upgrading packages because of this. I know it's fairly easy to 
> change the sources list but if it sucks this much it just shouldn't be 
> there.
> 
> Can the Ubuntu developers make a change to how the default is setup?

How about the UWA mirror?
  ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/

Its on AARNET and its fast.
It seems to be updated regularly also.

regards,

Kim
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Operating Systems, Services and Operations
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