On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:46:00 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:32:30 +1000 > Jonathan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I guess it could be blocked, but why would my ISP (tpg) do that??? > > I belive that mirror.aarnet.edu.au actually blocks abusers of their > system (ie more than 1 download at a time) for short periods. Have > you been a bad boy? ;-). > Weelll, maybe ... but how do they know it's me trying to ping them??? And anyway, they should love me, because I went to the trouble of installing squid to save multiple downloads ... which is why I want to get back to aarnet because my cache is full of woody packages from aarnet and I'd like to save the bandwidth, not that I care anymore because I'm on unlimited download plan, and of course they were a more reliable mirror than planetmirror. Cheers. Jonathan. > Erik > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Microsoft owns Hotmail. Hotmail runs Sun Solaris on their > servers, not Windows NT. Does NT have problems? > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
