On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Zack Buhman <[email protected]> wrote: > We have been forced/ordered by UNO IS to disallow connections from > outside 137.48.0.0/16 to hive.ist.unomaha.edu. > > Allegedly the Lincoln campus is having "bandwidth issues", and the > North campus network engineers are quickly pointing their fingers at > everyone except for themselves (which is absurd; network utilization > on hive is relatively light to begin with--but nobody wants to listen > to us). They're also somewhat upset that on > https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/ the mirror is falsely attributed to > North campus "unomaha.edu", rather than us, "ist.unomaha.edu". > > I know how terrible it is for mirrors to do this, but I'd much like to > not risk my job over this; my sincerest apologies--it's even worse for > me, because HP was about to give us a $15,000 server donation (they > donate to "open source" causes or something I guess) to replace hive, > but of course IS can't let nice things like this happen. > > Hopefully we'll be able to clear our name soon--in the meantime, I > thought I would proactively explain why your probe is unable to talk > to hive.
I've marked your mirror inactive for now; thanks for letting us know. -Dan _______________________________________________ arch-mirrors mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-mirrors
