<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 14/04/09 22:40, Onkar Shinde wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:c9c316090904140740s6c942b35p8399d5a671264077@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Onno Benschop <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:onno@itmaze.com.au"><onno@itmaze.com.au></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Today I finally got to the bottom of why apt-get/aptitude update was failing. The owner of an Australian mirror has moved the files to a different server. Apart from updating the sources.list, and updating the bug that supplied the URL to the mirror in the first place, apt-get doesn't appear to be following a 302 redirect. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Is it really a 302 redirect? Typing <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/">http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/</a> in browser it looks like meta-refresh based redirect. </pre> </blockquote> When I do an apt-get update the error returned is "302 Found" - going to the URL in a web-browser was what brought the understanding that there was something else going on - and I saw the meta redirect there too. I just did another test, if I visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz">http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz</a> That redirects with a "302 Found" to: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/">http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/</a> Which has the meta redirect on it. Seems that the mirror itself is just redirecting everything to the same URL, rather than to the new location as a 302 indicates. Perhaps a "404 Not Found" would be more appropriate? <blockquote cite="mid:c9c316090904140740s6c942b35p8399d5a671264077@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Is this expected, normal behaviour, or am I seeing something unusual? Is there anything that the mirror operator has neglected to do, or something else? The ISP is Australia's largest, Telstra BigPond: The original mirror (203.46.104.10) was: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/">http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/</a> The new mirror (203.46.104.19) is now: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.files.bigpond.com/ubuntu/">http://mirror.files.bigpond.com/ubuntu/</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The mirror (old or new) is not listed in the official list on page - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors">https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors</a> >From where did you come to know about the mirror? </pre> </blockquote> The mirror has been around for a while and references to it are found in various Australian forums, most notably, whirlpool. I've just posted a message to the Bigpond and Linux/BSD forums there to advise users that this mirror has changed. As for an official status, I had added it to a similar request for a NZ mirror to be added. I've just updated that to reflect the new location of the mirror. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/139768">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/139768</a> Thanks for the link to the list of mirrors. I was unaware of the mechanism of registering an official mirror and today I will contact Telstra Bigpond and see if I am able to talk to the group responsible for the mirror to see if they would like to be registered as an Australian mirror. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06" - E115°50'39" (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:onno@itmaze.com.au">onno@itmaze.com.au</a> </pre> </body> </html>