On Friday 03 November 2006 20:40, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > 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... A very quick look at the apt-cacher page does not mention an ftp cache, but I know that the Squid-Cache does cache ftp transactions.
-- CS
