Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 07:15:43PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
> Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month?
I emailed mirror@mirror.aarnet.edu.au; here's the reply:
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jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> on 10/10/2000 13:24:29
To: csmall@eye-net.com.au, chanop@syseng.anu.edu.au,
p.cameron@microbiology.unimelb.edu.au, david@colossus.apana.org.au,
jeremy@austux.net, Jonathan Wheelhouse/AU/AMP@AMP
cc:
Subject: debian archive problems
Hi,
You've all written to me about problems with the debian archive.
I'm currently working on resolving this.
the problem is a combination of:
o inability to contact ftp.debian.org because too many end users
are connected to the rsync service which shuts us out.
o lots of timeouts and slow updates.
i've contacted the debian people about this and have been advised
to try to find one of the more stable sites which resolve to
ftp.debian.org (there are 5 of them in round robin).
i've asked for access to ftp-master but currently am waiting on
a response to discuss it.
in the meantime i am trying to run manual updates. i'll be running
these 24/7 until i can try and get us as up to date as possible.
since the debian archive is 20G plus, obviously this can take some
time if they have been doing major package changes.
in response to queries why the Packages file are not being updated
and they are dated Sep XX while packages newer than that are added,
i have checked (one..) ftp.debian.org and it's exactly the same
there. if it's broken at the `source' for me, i can't do much about
it..
e.g
from ftp.debian.org:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1667582 Sep 11 19:11 Contents-alpha.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1539834 Sep 28 19:08 Contents-arm.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1871008 Sep 11 19:12 Contents-i386.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1608279 Sep 6 20:04 Contents-m68k.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1596844 Sep 28 19:08 Contents-powerpc.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1613042 Sep 8 19:12 Contents-sparc.gz
regards,
-jason
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Jonathan
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