The two that will always work are: http://uk.maven.org/maven2/
and http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ Scrapers will definitely get blocked and stay blocked. But no normal user stays blocked if they inadvertently hit the tripwires. Only takes a short conversation, proving that the activity which caused getting banned was accidental or unintentional. We, Sonatype, are looking at setting up a third mirror but it doesn't seem to be necessary at this point in time. 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 That is pretty outdated...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. > > 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 Maybe also the sync of the outdated mirrors has been broken 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 --------------------------------------------------------- You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -- Robert Pirzig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
