On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:45:41 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 07 July 2008 15:02:41 Philip Charles wrote: > > On Monday 07 July 2008, Aidan Gauland wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm been using the ftp.nz.debian.org repository mirror for a while > > > now, and yesterday I couldn't get any packages from there. I get this > > > error when trying to get a package (jlint, in this case)... > > > > > > W: Failed to fetch > > > ftp://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/main/j/jlint/jlint_3.0-4.1_i386.deb > > > Could not connect passive socket. > > > > > > ...I've never seen that one before, and I haven't made any changes to > > > my sources.list file recently. The really odd thing is that I can > > > access the site through my web browser, using http, and nmap reports > > > that port 21 is open (which is used for ftp). Is anyone on this list > > > using this mirror successfully? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Aidan > > > > ftp access is not working, http is. > > For TelstraClear customers it's as slow as a wet week. > Around 250 kbits/sec is a 'going well' speed atm. Our TC adsl at work tops out at about 220kByte/s > > Tracepatch shows it's being routed via the West Coast of the US. > > Goodness only knows why? > I wish somebody would explain. > > I feel like lodging a false advertising complaint with the Commerce > Commission, because I bought a 10Mbit connection which consistently only > manages a fortieth of the advertised speed when connecting to one of the > fastest archives in the country. Is there any speed test that you can use against local stores? > > Is the internet suffering yet another spam, worm, or virus storm at the > moment? Not too sure, but I do know that one of my US based customers has had their ISP's DNS servers taken out this morning... which has taken their site out. > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell I find that ihug ( ftp://debian.ihug.co.nz/... ) tend to give about 30 times that performance ( max just under 800kByte/sec ) ... but then I am a customer, which might make a difference there (: You'll find ubuntu, gentoo and a few others there, too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
