On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 12:40:26PM +1100, Tim Bell wrote: > Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can any .AU users recommend any other debian mirrors in AU? > > ftp.usyd.edu.au:/linux/debian was excellent but currently > > contains only the indices subdirectory. Before that I found
> > They recommend ftp.monash.edu.au but that has sunsite's > > directory structure and I always find the sunsite-type > > places to be very out of date with debian. Actually Monash does seem to be up to date. I used it yesterday. Unfortunately the bandwidth from there is not always very good. > I use croatan.schnet.edu.au (with a ping time of 31 msec from Melbourne). I get "cannot set guest priviledges" from that with ftp. > Or at least I did the last time I needed it. I just tested it now, and > it seems something is screwy with their server. Have you tried > ftp.uwa.edu.au? Looks like it should be pretty fast too. Thanks for the list. Although the shortening mirror list is mildly concerning -- first www.unimelb.edu.au gone, then ftp.usyd.edu.au gone, ... Still, at least ftp.debian.org is fast enough from here. Yesterday I had a hell of a time getting some Slackware boot disks, everywhere I tried was just so slow (including Monash, ftp.cdrom.com, etc). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .