[plug] iinet to be Debian mirror after Christmas some time.

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Bernard <bernard at blackham.com.au> wrote :
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:05:05PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> > >They are moving away from RedHat to Debian and consequently say they
will
> > >be providing a Debian mirror shortly.
> >
> > Ditto, found it very enjoyable, for me it also drove home how simple*
and
> > convenient* things are when you have enough money ... I'm still deciding
if
> > I want a house or an AS5300 ... at least I don't have to buy 2 houses
for
> > redundancy :)
>
> You don't? And what if one house falls over?
>
> > What are the chances they already have an internal mirror on one/several
of
> > the staff machines?
>
> They said they do. From what I heard, they used to be a Debian
> mirror, till they realised they were severely short of disk space so
> gave it the flick. And it will be returning after Christmas or
> RSN(tm) as per the original email. But yes, apparently they have
> their own internal mirror.
>
> One thing I forgot to ask and will contact them about shortly, but
> someone here might know and give me a quicker response - seeing as
> iiNet does not get charged for WAIX traffic, does that mean that
> customers do not either? Currently "internal traffic" to iiNet is
> not charged for/counted, but does WAIX still count? Because Planet
> Mirror is on WAIX and that'd be handy - Debian's already there :)

That comment is true for some classes of account, but not for others.
Broadband, for example, get an amount of free traffic, after which it's
charged for, internal or not.  *All* traffic is counted for all accounts.

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Paul Wilson