[Debian-uk] www.uk.debian.org connectivity problems?

[P.S.S.Camp]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:17:53PM +0100, P.S.S.Camp wrote:
> >
> > Please feel free to use
> >
> > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian
> > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/backports.org
> > ...
> >
>
> I saw that JISC were pulling mirror.ac.uk the other day. That must make
> your staff feel rather annoyed, I'd imagine, given recent history :(
yes rather I can't comment any further yet.

All that i can say is that any a all feedback along the line that the
community would like JISC to fund such a service would be very welcome.
specially directly to the JISC.

>
> I've always experienced superlative service from you and yours: are you
> still willing and able to continue to provide a Debian mirror longterm?
Yes and will do for the foreseeable future. Just added an extra TB of
storage and we are now doing all arches in the debian archive, and will
for debian cd too once I jiggle discs and server.

The University Of Kent fully supports mirrorservice.org

>
> The reason I ask is because we may update the mirrors list when 4.0r1
> happens: blueyonder also went off the 'Net now that they've been
> replaced by Virgin Media. I don't know whether they got
> forwarding/redirects to work properly.
>
> Thanks for yours and your staffs help and service over the years - it's
> very much appreciated by this Debian user.
Thank you

Always glad to help and after all mirrorservice.org runs on debian.

thanks
Phill


>
> > Any feedback welcome ;-)
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> Andy
>
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