Bug#277950: debian-installer: www.mirror.ac.uk broken or too unreliable ?
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Picking www.mirror.ac.uk never seems to work when I pick it
from the list of UK mirrors in any of the 3 or 4 installs
I've done in the last few months.
I used to use this site for all my machines and it was always nice and
fast (unlike the official UK debian mirror) and up. However, there
was some funny business with this site a few months ago.
IIRC, the www.mirror.ac.uk domain was handed over to some 3rd party
to whom provision of the service is now contracted out. After some
downtime it reappeared, but the old lines in my sources list no
longer worked.
The service originally provided at www.mirror.ac.uk now lives
at www.mirrorservice.org and very well it works too (just needed
a global-replace on the domain in my apt sources and I was fine).
Everyone in the local LUG who used www.mirror.ac.uk switched
to www.mirrorservice.org when it disappeared.
I'd suggest providing www.mirrorservice.org instead/as well, and/or
figuring out what magic the new operators of www.mirror.ac.uk
need (suspect it's somthing like using www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/... instead
of www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/... ? Although that doesn't work for me either).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
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