[H-GEN] Pacific.net.au FreeBSD mirror

James Lever j at jamver.id.au
Fri Nov 2 08:09:56 EDT 2007


On 02/11/2007, at 4:18 PM, Greg Black wrote:

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> On 2007-11-02, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>
>> While trying to figure out why the FreeBSD distributions were not
>> updated on the Australian mirrors, the pacific.net.au mirror
>> (ftp3.au.freebsd.org) got taken offline:
>>
>>    The FreeBSD directory was deleted this morning, literally an
>>    hour before your message came in, when our arrays ran out of
>>    space.
>
> [re pacific]
> How pathetic.  One of the few reasons to stick with them has been the
> "free" access to their mirrors.

Interestingly though, I've just checked the internode mirror and  
although I don't know how complete it is, there were updates done in  
the past couple of days to some of it.

cheers,
James





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