Debian mirror in Australia [was Re: Cups - printer..........]

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Charlie wrote, on 2009-07-05 08:34:
...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ghostscript-cups
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 73.8kB of archives. After unpacking 250kB will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Err http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main ghostscript-cups 8.64~dfsg-12
>   504 Gateway Time-out [IP: 150.203.164.37 80]
> E: Failed to fetch
> http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-cups_8.64~dfsg-12_i386.deb:
> 504 Gateway Time-out [IP: 150.203.164.37 80]
>
> But I will try later.
...

I gave up on ftp.au.debian.org very quickly. When I was using an ISP 
that didn't have a Debian mirror, I used ftp.at.debian.org.

Thankfully my present ISP (see email address) does have a Debian mirror 
which doesn't count towards download quotas.

Regards,

Arthur.