[tech] ftp.uwa.edu.au

Ian McKellar yakk at yakk.net.au
Fri May 19 14:14:57 WST 2000


On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:09:15PM +0800, Simon Fryer wrote:
> Bing
> 
> > A while ago Duncan Sargeant tapped:
> 
> > > i noticed this last night.  it doesn't recognize the anonymous user
> > > anymore ...  dunc?
> > 
> > uniwa had a disk failure and is being brought up on another machine.
> > You can probably say goodbye to the mirrors for the moment.
> 
> Can UCC be the mirror for a short while? UWA has backups doesn't it
> because it is nGB at $0.xx/MB???
> 
> *ponder* We should have a nice 6GB and 4GB drives floating about somewhere 
> from old /home and /services.
> 
> Nick mutters about 13GB of IPI disk.... 

(1) Who would pay the bill?
    The cost is not insignificant, and the benefit is minimal.

(2) Why bother?
    ftp.q-net.net.au has a much more up to date debian mirror than UCS
		keeps (at least for i386) - and its on WAIX.

Ian 

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