<quote who="Sonia Hamilton">

> * On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:10:05PM +1000, Penedo wrote:
> > 1. Apparently the Debian mirrors are disappearing - first on Optus and
> > last night apparently also on iiNet.  Does anyone know what's going on?
> > (I'd ask this on debian-au but according to its archive this list seems
> > to be dead since March).
> 
> Presuming that decisions at ISPs aren't totally random (I know, a very
> strong assumption) Debian mirrors are being removed because volume of
> traffic vs space can't be justified. Perhaps Ubuntu usage is really
> encroaching on Debian?

More likely: A server that has (for whatever reason) managed to delete their
debian mirror will impact downstream mirrors if/when they rsync --delete.

- Jeff

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