[PLUG] question on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) repositories availability in Oregon

[Jameson Williams]

+1 to the linux-flavor.osuosl.org repos; I have been using them since I 
moved to Oregon, never with any hickup and usually with high throughput. 
I hadn't been aware that Portland State had a mirror!


On 10/03/2011 12:57 PM, Fernando Freire wrote:
> I too, lost access to cat.pdx.edu, although I was accessing Arch-Linux
> repositories. I ended up changing my update server to point to the OSU
> OS Lab, which seemed to work fine. Hope this helps!
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM, website reader
> <website.reader3 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I lost the ability to rsync into the Ubuntu mirror repository at
>> "mirrors.cat.pdx.edu" over the past weekend, and trying to use the
>> "mirror.uoregon.edu" repo also fails.  The pdx repository states that
>> a network link cannot be made and redirects to "opal.cat.pdx.edu",
>> while the U of OR link simply replies NOP on the rsync request (had to
>> take a look inside the TCP packet to figure out what was happening in
>> this case)
>>
>> It is close to the official release of Ubuntu Oneiric, could the repos
>> be limiting access to avoid everyone landing on them and overloading
>> bandwidth?  Or perhaps the problem is local to me?
>>
>> The pdx repository has been running well for months, so it was a
>> surprise to lose access.
>>
>> I would like to know if these repos are accessible to others in the
>> Portland area.  Thanks for letting me know.
>>
>> Randall
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