On Dec 15, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Jörg Hohwiller wrote: > Hi there, > > some people recommend to use a mirror for maven. Others are required to as > their IP address has been blacklisted so they can not reach central > (repo1.maven.org) anymore. >
> From what I know mirrors are listed here: > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Mirrors+Repositories > > My feedback on this: > > 1. http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/maven2 > last_updated.txt: Sat Jan 9 20:15:40 CST 2010 > That is pretty outdated... > > 2. http://repo1.sonatype.net/maven2 > Does not work. I get always get 404. > This one is definitely dead. We'll just remove that from the documentation. > 3. http://repo.exist.com/maven2/ > last_updated.txt: Tue Nov 23 22:30:45 CST 2010 > Not up-to-date... > > 4. http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2 > last_updated.txt: Tue Nov 30 22:54:22 CST 2010 > Not really up-to-date... > > 5. http://www.ibiblio.net/pub/packages/maven2 > Is always redirecting to > http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2 > > 6. http://mirrors.redv.com/maven2 > I get 403 - maybe only visible in china... > > 7. http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/maven > Does not work. I get always get 404. > > 8. http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/maven2 > Does not work. I get always get 404. > > 9. http://mirror.netcologne.de/maven2 > last_updated.txt: Tue Nov 30 22:54:22 CST 2010 > Not really up-to-date... > > I do not know what you actually expect from a mirror, > but in other universes (e.g. linux) a real mirror is usually > never older than 2 days. > > Of course nobody owns the maven community anything and > everybody can start his own mirror. > However banning people from central in this case seems to > be a hard punishment and there should be some process to get > out of this again. > > I can perfectly access central but I have some friends that have been > blacklisted. > > If someone can confirm the errors with the mirrors sending > 404, we can at least remove them from the wiki page. > > Maybe also the sync of the outdated mirrors has been broken > for some reason and someone can check this. > > Thanks > Jörg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- Three people can keep a secret provided two of them are dead. -- Unknown
