[tech] Local debian mirrors (was Re: [wheel] webcam user not in NIS and general mussel stuff)
Nick Bannon
nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Feb 25 13:20:59 WST 2001
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:15:51AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
[...]
> As for incomplete setups, mussel is supposed to be running woody but the
> UWA and IT mirrors were fscked (specifically the Packages files) when we
> set it up, so it's not very happy.
Seems fine now... sure it wasn't in the middle of an update...?
Unfortunately, neither of our closest mirrors have been perfect.
UWA is deliberate partial mirror (source+i386+alpha only), but its
upstream mirror.aarnet.edu.au had space problems and was missing files.
This is now remedied. UWA moved to IT as an upstream temporarily - I
think it's back to mirror.aarnet.edu.au . Unfortunately, now it looks
like ftp.uwa.edu.au is out of space (
ftp.uwa.edu.au:/usr/local/ftp/mirrors/linux
17660720 16800600 0 100% /linux
), though that may be fixed soon.
IT has always been a full mirror, and it's now available over a fast
link, but I have had some routing problems getting to it. They were
fixed, but they recurred temporarily the other day... Most packets were
coming to UCC fine, but going back via WAIX. Unfortunately, our
130.95.13 addresses can't receive fragmentation messages, so when large
packets tried to go through, TCP MTU path discovery broke... Symptom -
you could connect, do small listings, etc, but actual file transfers
would hang. Again, this seems fine at the moment.
Nick.
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