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Ubuntu on ftp.is.co.za
I just tried to run some updates on my ubuntu machine and noticed that they took the HTTP service on ubuntu.mirror.ac.za down again. I needed to install a new package so started looking for alternatives. There is also an FTP service on ubuntu.mirror.ac.za which you can try and seems to work best for me.
There is a list of South African mirrors on the ubuntu wiki so I decided to check that out. The universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch are kindly running mirrors as well but as we all know they are not too fast. The only other option is ftp.is.co.za. Years back I had some problems with this server and asked that they move the main South African ubuntu mirror to ubuntu.mirror.ac.za (which they did) and good thing too because the IS server still does not seem to be up to scratch.
For comparison, look at the last modification dates here, here and here. ubuntu.mirror.ac.za was updated on 2008-06-13 yet ftp.is.co.za is running two separate copies, one updated on 2008-05-14 and the other updated on 2007-10-18.
I would strongly advise anyone that is still updating from the IS server to move off ASAP!
Does anybody know who I can contact regarding this?
For easy reference, here is my new /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb ftp://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-archive/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src ftp://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-archive/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb ftp://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-archive/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src ftp://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-archive/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb ftp://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-archive/ hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src ftp://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-archive/ hardy-security main restricted universe multiverseCopyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
2 Comments
Comment by
Morgan on Monday, June 16, 2008 6:22:00 PM
http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ works fine for me, and should always be working. If not, contact Andrew Alston using his initials at tenet.ac.za...
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Monday, June 16, 2008 7:40:00 PM
Hi Morgan,
Yes it's working now again - thanks. I had this problem before a couple of days back but I figured they were working on it as it's been on-and-off. If the problem persisted I would have contacted Andrew.
Cheers,
Charl
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