Internet goat track - Telstra Pacific link problems?

[Monica Berko]

[Damien Miller writes]
>
>Another excellent resource is FTP mirror-sites, there are many of these
>which I use regularly, for speed of connection and out of consideration
>for the overseas links.
>
>The most useful of these was the archie.au FTP server. It has been around
>for years and _was_ an excellent resource - mirroring several PC, mac,
>unix and internet-related archives from the US. Unfortunately since
>Telstra took over operation of archie.au it has become largely neglected,
>the maximum number of users has been decreased to something ridiculous (60
>or 90 if my memory serves) and the welcome message has not been updated
>for nearly a year (it still advises of a disk failure in september 1995).
>

The Australian SunSITE maintains a large ftp software archive which
includes mirrors of the Simtel, Garbo, Info-Mac, Umich, GNU, and Linux
archives and of Netscape software and Sun's Java Devleopment kit and Java
Workskop.

See <URL:http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/archives/>


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