ca.archive.ubuntu.com

[Derek Broughton]

John Vivirito wrote:

>> 
>> The mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com is, useless.
>> 
>> It's in a "bandwidth exceeded" state (where the error page isn't even
>> showing though)
>> 
>> And, thus, hindering updates and other goodies for users.  I'm never
>> exactly sure who to tell when I have troubles with mirrors, so I'll
>> just throw it out here.
> 
> run this command  sudo sed -i 's/ca\.//g' /etc/apt/sources.list and than
> run sudo apt-get update again. that will pull the ca. out of the repos
> and you should be ok from there.

I think _any_ of us would be capable of editing the sources.  It's not a
solution to throw all the traffic to the main mirror.

I haven't found ca.archive.ubuntu.com to be useful for many months now
(since shortly after Breezy was released).  
-- 
derek