[plug] Debian upgrade

[Benjamin J Keith]

try ftp.wa.au.debian.org which is (or is contained within) ftp.it.net.au

this is within the WAIX exchange :)

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:

> > One thing I have found is that sometimes the iinet mirror (is this the only 
> > one in Perth?) is slow to get updated.  This can be a pain if it there ends 
> > up being a broken version of something on there.  On the main Debian site 
> > they usually fix anything that's wrong within a day or so.
> 
> ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian
> 
> and iinet has a debian mirror!?! I'm with iiNet at work (ADSL)
> and I've been using mirror.aarnet.edu.au and frp.uwa.edu.au (screams).
> 
> That said, the mirror on aarnet is really badly maintained. Packages.gz
> for sid gets updated before all the new packages have been downloaded,
> and old packages are deleted before the new ones have been made
> available. Frustrating, especially for of all places the aarnet
> mirror! Don't try to download their woody cdimages either, they seem to
> be rebuilt at some time during the night, overwriting the eariler image.
> So unless you've got a REALLY fast connection and know when they do the
> switch, you're likely to get 3/4 of a cd image.
> 
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