ca.archive.ubuntu.com

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On 5/23/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> John Vivirito wrote:
>
> >>
> >> The mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com is, useless.
> >>
> >> It's in a "bandwidth exceeded" state (where the error page isn't even
> >> showing though)
> >>
> >> And, thus, hindering updates and other goodies for users.  I'm never
> >> exactly sure who to tell when I have troubles with mirrors, so I'll
> >> just throw it out here.
> >
> > run this command  sudo sed -i 's/ca\.//g' /etc/apt/sources.list and than
> > run sudo apt-get update again. that will pull the ca. out of the repos
> > and you should be ok from there.
>
> I think _any_ of us would be capable of editing the sources.  It's not a
> solution to throw all the traffic to the main mirror.
>
> I haven't found ca.archive.ubuntu.com to be useful for many months now
> (since shortly after Breezy was released).

Thanks Derek, that is exactly my point.

I too have experienced problems with 'local' mirrors in the past.

Naturally we can't expect mirrors to last forever, especially with the
size and popularity of Ubuntu these days; but whoever maintains the
mirrors should be aware of these issues.

I've since found out that this mirror is also us.archive.ubuntu.com -
perhaps it's time to shop around for some more reliable ones. (perhaps
mirrors.kernel.org - they're always fast!)

If they're unreliable, they shouldn't be in the list.

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