[clug] Ubuntu at ANU halls and colleges

Robert Edwards bob at cs.anu.edu.au
Sun Mar 11 22:44:38 GMT 2007


Robin Shannon wrote:
> I used ubuntu at fenner hall all of last year and because download is
> so expensive I put Acquire::http::Proxy "http://ra0.anu.edu.au:3128/";
> in my apt.conf so that it would use the free anu mirror instead. This
> seems to have stopped working this year. Also now other .edu.au
> domains no longer seem to be free so I can't point sources.list to the
> uwa mirror. Does anyone else know of anyway of downloading from the
> ubuntu repos on the ANU network that it is free (as in beer since it
> is already free as in speech)?
> 
> Thanks,
> -rjs.
> 

Not sure why "ra0" wouldn't be working for Fenner Hall. What is the IP
address you get there?

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.


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