au.archive.ubuntu.com - not in Australia today

[Daniel Mons]

Last month, "au.archive.ubuntu.com" pointed to the AARNet mirror, hosted
in Canberra:

http://geotool.servehttp.com/?host=mirror.aarnet.edu.au

(Interestingly enough, all of Optus' "mirror" servers point there too).

Today it points back to Ubuntu's web HQ in England:

http://geotool.servehttp.com/?ip=91.189.88.31
http://geotool.servehttp.com/?ip=91.189.88.45
http://geotool.servehttp.com/?ip=91.189.88.46

I understand that with the release of Intrepid there are other issues to
contend with (synchronisation with upstream, catering for the bandwidth
demand, etc), but I'm a little disappointed that it has been done this
way.   Lets hope it returns soon to an Australian mirror soon.

Those of you who understand how to hack your /etc/apt/sources.list, I'd
suggest manually pointing back to an Aussie mirror (and one hosted by
your ISP and/or ISP-peer) if you don't feel like seeing your packages
trickle down the wire.

-Dan