I agree that the stability of ftp.tw.debian.org has been less than ideal. I admin servers in multiple countries with sources.lists typically auto-generated using ftp.XX.debian.org for the primary mirror. By far I see the most problems with the Taiwan mirror. Most are transient (<1hr) or non-critical such as packages being stale, so go unreported. I checked my records and found 5 bug reports related to the Taiwan mirror over 5 years:
646794 694042 719020 732545 777264 This isn't horrible, but it does demonstrate a pattern of problems with the availability of this mirror. Certainly this current outage of 11 days and counting is the extreme example (and because of the new year's holiday may not receive attention until next week). -- James Lick -- 黎建溥 -- james.l...@jameslick.com -- http://jameslick.com/