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Mirror info here:

http://espejo.freemoe.org/

Originally Posted by tekojo View Post
Just got off the phone with the ISP help desk.
The fix goes to tomorrow morning.

Until that repositories and mailing lists are down due to a completely dead NFS mount.
This boggles the mind. Even small ISPs have contracts where worst case scenario someone gets on a plane to hand deliver parts. How the hell can something as huge as Akamai be down for a weekend?

I've been in these data centers that these huge players use. They are not a "no one's home for the weekend" kind of place. Here's a description of one I visited a few years back in San Jose: you get in an elevator with no buttons. Security controls the elevator remotely and shoots you up to the data center entrance. Elevator opens, and you are in a secured area. There you get checked through. They have entire floors which just do power, with batteries, generators, etc. If power goes out, diesel trucks get sent (premeptively) from two distinct routes to bring diesel *just in case*. Worst case scenario, the building has a helipad for diesel to be delivered just to keep the place running.

The nameservers that freemoe.org is using is from an ISP that didn't go down for a minute throughout all of the Katrina hurricane disaster and they were in downtown New Orleans.

These data centers are *prepared*. Akamai is one of the biggest (e.g. they do such sites as CNN).

Akamai "gone for the weekend"? Hmmmmmmm. They can't bring up a simple NFS mount??? Hmmmm.

Originally Posted by tekojo View Post
P.P.S. I know a couple of people have set up mirrors of the repos, so if you have just flashed your device and want the software today, please see the server move thread for people who might have a mirror.
I know of my http://espejo.freemoe.org one, but of no other. If someone would point me to one I'd be happy to include it on my site. We obviously need more mirrors, especially for weekends.

Originally Posted by swagger View Post
two of them are up now but extras devel mirror is down
This makes no sense as they are all fed from the same servers. Extras-devel is simply another directory on the server. It's not a separate server. Anyway, all three servers are pushing .debs, you can see the (rough) stats here:
http://mas.freemoe.org/cgi-bin/anlgform.cgi
http://masymas.freemoe.org/cgi-bin/anlgform.cgi
http://masymasymas.freemoe.org/cgi-bin/anlgform.cgi
 

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