We only have 1 major telco in Australia, and due to high bandwidth costs is the only reason.
mirror.aarnet has been like that for at least 5 years that I know of so its not like its just recently they have decided this policy. Check our www.aarnet.edu.au for more info if you want to know the history behind the site Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Karsten W. Rohrbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 8:53 AM To: Andrew Kenna Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: site/docs/mirrors mirrors.list index.html mirrors.check] Andrew Kenna([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.08.19 09:58:48 +0000: > the mirror.aarnet web site is current, it carries the 2.0.40 version of apache > > Its restricted to Aus because of the high bandwidth costs associated with 1 company having a monopoly on the telco industry. God damn you tel$tra how nice of them. why is it this way? is there some dedicated apache.org box doing the mirror staleness probes? if yes, why not let this one through and make it policy for the mirrors? regards, /k -- > Wenn in der Kueche alles stimmt, geht auch die Musik in Ordnung. WebMonster Community Project -- Reliable and quick since 1998 -- All on BSD http://www.webmonster.de/ - ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ - http://www.rohrbach.de/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 REVOKED: 0x2964BF46 D/E 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 REVOKED: 0x4C44DA59 RSA F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 My mail is GnuPG signed -- Unsigned ones are bogus -- http://www.gnupg.org/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x
