[Ubuntu-SG] New to singapore

[Rykel Lim]

Very jialat.... result of bureaucratic societies ridden by red tape?
On Nov 21, 2014 7:54 PM, "Chow Loong Jin" <hyperair at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 01:36:30PM +0800, Ravi Mohan wrote:
> > NTUOSS also used to have mirrors ages ago - No idea if they are still
> > maintained.
>
> They aren't maintained any longer. I used to maintain the NTUOSS mirrors
> on a
> machine hidden behind a publicly accessible lab's server (reverse-proxying
> and
> turning that server into a NAT router). It used to work so well then.
>
> But after the lab keeled over, I made the mistake of revealing our
> presence to
> the Centre for IT Services in NTU and properly registering our server under
> their notice. They then just screwed us over and over again, starting by
> severely rate-limiting external traffic to/from our server (that's why you
> guys
> found it unrealible), completely screwing over the internal network (5MB/s
> tops
> on a LAN? Really?) and ending by deciding to move us to their internal
> "cloud"
> running IIS.
>
> It's gone for now. I think.
>
> > In my experience though, most local mirrors for ubuntu seem
> > *horrifically* unreliable - I tend to use the US one for my VMs and
> > fileserver
>
> NUS's mirror is actually maintained by staff. They do such a terrible job
> at it,
> it's quite laughable. I think I completely gave up on it after they started
> responding with 403 for a segment of the archive and didn't respond to my
> report
> about the issue.
>
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> Kind regards,
> Loong Jin
>
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