On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean by explain? If you needed an okay mirror for Debian: > > http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian (updated with stable; testing and > unstable a little behind) > ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian (fairly good update frequency; > while it's not located in Singapore, the speed is quite good) mirror.pacific.net.au is also fast accessed from Shenzhen, China. I have used it often.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Stephan M. February <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I've no idea where it's located, but using the following in my > /etc/apt/sources.list is super fast. > > http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ After nslookup & whois query, sg.archive.ubuntu.com is verified located in Sg, too. $ nslookup sg.archive.ubuntu.com Server: 203.168.223.202 Address: 203.168.223.202#53 Non-authoritative answer: sg.archive.ubuntu.com canonical name = ftp.science.nus.edu.sg. Name: ftp.science.nus.edu.sg Address: 137.132.69.169 $ whois 137.132.69.169 OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre OrgID: APNIC Address: PO Box 2131 City: Milton StateProv: QLD PostalCode: 4064 Country: AU ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net NetRange: 137.132.0.0 - 137.132.255.255 CIDR: 137.132.0.0/16 NetName: APNIC-ERX-137-132-0-0 NetHandle: NET-137-132-0-0-1 Parent: NET-137-0-0-0-0 NetType: Early Registrations, Transferred to APNIC Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database. Comment: This range was transferred to the APNIC Whois Database as Comment: part of the ERX (Early Registration Transfer) project. Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more Comment: help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse RegDate: 2004-02-18 Updated: 2004-02-18 OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact OrgTechPhone: +61 7 3858 3188 OrgTechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-04-29 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. Found a referral to whois.apnic.net. % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 137.132.0.0 - 137.132.255.255 netname: NUSNET descr: imported inetnum object for NUS-1 country: SG admin-c: CCNU1-AP tech-c: CCNU1-AP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ remarks: This object can only be updated by APNIC hostmasters. remarks: To update this object, please contact APNIC remarks: hostmasters and include your organisation's account remarks: name in the subject line. remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ remarks: Fault, Abuse & Spam Reporting: remarks: Spam and Abuse: [EMAIL PROTECTED] remarks: Network Issues: [EMAIL PROTECTED] remarks: NOC Telephone: +65-6516-1786 remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ notify: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt-by: APNIC-HM mnt-lower: MAINT-NUS-AP changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20020215 changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20041214 changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20070227 source: APNIC person: Computer Centre National Universityof Singapore [...] -- Cheng _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
