On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Onno Benschop <o...@itmaze.com.au> wrote: > Today I finally got to the bottom of why apt-get/aptitude update was > failing. The owner of an Australian mirror has moved the files to a > different server. > > Apart from updating the sources.list, and updating the bug that supplied the > URL to the mirror in the first place, apt-get doesn't appear to be following > a 302 redirect.
Is it really a 302 redirect? Typing http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ in browser it looks like meta-refresh based redirect. > Is this expected, normal behaviour, or am I seeing something unusual? > > Is there anything that the mirror operator has neglected to do, or something > else? > > The ISP is Australia's largest, Telstra BigPond: > > The original mirror (203.46.104.10) was: > > http://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ > > The new mirror (203.46.104.19) is now: > > http://mirror.files.bigpond.com/ubuntu/ The mirror (old or new) is not listed in the official list on page - https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors >From where did you come to know about the mirror? Onkar -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
