Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Friday 03 November 2006 20:14, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: >> John Carter wrote: >>> Weird. >>> >>> I can see ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz, but http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com >>> (same ip) seems to be dead. >>> >>> Oh dearie me. I'm trying to set up a apt-cacher (which only speaks >>> http), so is there another nz ubuntu mirror? >> Seem to be down again now? And has been for some time. >> Same symptoms as above... > There seems to be a ftp server on that address. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nc nz.archive.ubuntu.com ftp > 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5) > QUIT > 221 Goodbye. > > That any good to you?
Thanks Chris, I know the ftp server is there, but like John I want to use apt-cacher to cache for my 4 Ubuntu boxes. Hmmm. Wonders if there is a technical reason why apt-cacher couldn't proxy ftp as well as http... -- Eliot
