[nzlug] Ubuntu Mirrors? (was International traffic really slow)

[Nevyn]

On 10/22/07, Guy K. Kloss <G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:13:17 am Leon Matthews wrote:
> > It'll be a long weekend in more ways than one, but great to spread some
> > Linux action around...
>
> We've just set up a proxy server for that purpose here at Massey on a box, so
> that we need to haul the stuff only once across the WAN.
>
> We've used approx, as we've had some issues with others (apt-proxy) before.
> But that doesn't mean, we don't have any problems with approx, either. I
> guess the main issue is that it needs to connect to the net through our
> screwed up Massey proxy in the first place ... :-/
>
> Anyone else using APT proxies?
>
> Guy

I've never been able to find a tutorial that works 100% for me.