Jon Biddell wrote:
-=> Someone here might have a better idea of the status of the
-=> Aarnet Mirror - is it down or something?? Traces/pings ftp
-=> and http://mirror.aarent.edu.au are all returning timeouts
-=> from two different ISP's we use (Telstra and RequestDSL).
-=> Traces are dying on the first hop which is weird, but it's
-=> the same for both routers.....almost like there's no route
-=> to 192.42.62.2 (what I'm resolving the mirror as).
-=>
-=> Any other info folks??
Working fine from here - and if you use mirror.aarnet.edu.au instead of
aarent.edu.au, you'll probably be able to get to it too....:-)
Usually the reason is that you're using the mirror from
overseas. As the mirror is, well, a mirror of other sites,
the original site is 14,000Km closer -- go and use it.
Some Australian ISPs send traffic to other Australian
ISPs via the US. They are treated as overseas networks
(which is only fair, they are attempting to cost-shift
their costs of using an Australian backbone ISP for
Australian traffic onto us paying for fatter overseas
links).
It's not perfect, but I can't afford the $5m per year
of allowing overseas users to use the mirror.
At some stage there will be a nice web page explaining
all of this when accessing the mirror rather than a
BGP-level solution.
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