AARNET mirror. Where is it located?

foxmulder881 · 27th June 2012, 9:54 AM

I'm curious as to where the AARNET mirror is located?

My DSL usually maxes out at around mid 5Mb/s. Just snatched the whole entire source kernel set for NetBSD from the AARNet and I was getting speeds of 6.5Mb/s. Awesome!

evilasdeath · 27th June 2012, 9:57 AM

trace route will give you a fair idea where its located depending on how well/reliable the ISPs have labelled the PTR records for the IPs.

Latencies are also a good confirmation that they are roughly that distance away.

gcflora · 27th June 2012, 10:00 AM

The Australian National University in Canberra

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/indexabout.html

Davo1111 · 27th June 2012, 10:54 AM

yep, it's at ANU. It's damn fast on campus

elvis · 28th June 2012, 11:58 AM

It was awesome for the very short amount of time when it was located in Qld. (For me, at least

).

malbert · 28th June 2012, 8:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gcflora

The Australian National University in Canberra

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/indexabout.html

From your link:

In 2006, ... [t]he mirror was relocated back to QLD as part of the upgrade process.

However, I'm inclined to believe that it lies in the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia. Bloody quick from Oodnadatta

gords · 28th June 2012, 10:31 PM

Offtopic and other whinging posts will be deleted from this thread and any others you care to post in. I'm not having a few of you guys (yes, you know who you are) belittling other members for asking questions and ironically, in whining about how bad OCAU is now, making it worse.

tin · 29th June 2012, 2:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gords

Offtopic and other whinging posts will be deleted from this thread and any others you care to post in. I'm not having a few of you guys (yes, you know who you are) belittling other members for asking questions and ironically, in whining about how bad OCAU is now, making it worse.

Gords is a big meanie... Just Kidding.

On topic though - I'd never even given a thought to the AARNET servers. But that page about it has some pretty darned impressive numbers on it.
84TB of storage!?!!?

Oppressa · 29th June 2012, 2:44 PM

I went with Aarnet at the educational institution I work at. Gigabit figre mmmmm

All of the on-net data is so bleeding quick. Microsoft and akamai included. iTunes setup exe in 5 seconds thanks! And great for video conferencing too

foxmulder881 · 29th June 2012, 3:29 PM

I took the matter in to my own hands and decided to email the system administrator myself, last night. I got a reply today.

Code:

Hi Chris,

The current location of mirror.aarnet is in Brisbane, Queensland. It was previously in the ACT. It has been in QLD for about six - seven years now.


Regards,

Alex Dodson
System Administrator
AARNet Pty Ltd

chip · 29th June 2012, 8:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evilasdeath

trace route will give you a fair idea where its located depending on how well/reliable the ISPs have labelled the PTR records for the IPs.

Latencies are also a good confirmation that they are roughly that distance away.

Code:

  55 ms    54 ms    54 ms  as7575.brisbane.pipenetworks.com [218.100.0.42]
  55 ms    55 ms    54 ms  ge-4-1-0.bb1.a.bne.aarnet.net.au [202.158.203.1]
  55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  tengigabitethernet2-1.er1.retain.cpe.aarnet.net.au [202.158.209.2]
  55 ms    55 ms    54 ms  mirror.aarnet.edu.au [202.158.214.106]

IACSecurity · 30th June 2012, 7:57 PM

If you read the link in the 3rd post you would have see that. Or if gords didn't delete my post saying exactly what Alex said, you wouldn't have had to waste other peoples time either.

Quote:

Originally Posted by foxmulder881

I took the matter in to my own hands and decided to email the system administrator myself, last night. I got a reply today.

Code:

Hi Chris,

The current location of mirror.aarnet is in Brisbane, Queensland. It was previously in the ACT. It has been in QLD for about six - seven years now.


Regards,

Alex Dodson
System Administrator
AARNet Pty Ltd

alch · 30th June 2012, 8:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foxmulder881

I took the matter in to my own hands and decided to email the system administrator myself, last night. I got a reply today.

Code:

blahblah

Why didnt you do that to begin with? SRSLY! Google is quicker than OCAU users will -ever- be.

Ed;
Sorry, that does also include moderators also. Not _JUST_ the users ;P. Sorry for the mass confusion!

TheWedgie · 30th June 2012, 8:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alch

Why didnt you do that to begin with? SRSLY! Google is quicker than OCAU users will -ever- be.

This.

Closed.

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foxmulder881 Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Gold Coast, QLD OS:R.Hat Posts: 5,845	I took the matter in to my own hands and decided to email the system administrator myself, last night. I got a reply today. Code: Hi Chris, The current location of mirror.aarnet is in Brisbane, Queensland. It was previously in the ACT. It has been in QLD for about six - seven years now. Regards, Alex Dodson System Administrator AARNet Pty Ltd Last edited by gords; 29th June 2012 at 3:51 PM. Reason: Removed phone numbers

27th June 2012, 9:57 AM	#2
evilasdeath Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,867	trace route will give you a fair idea where its located depending on how well/reliable the ISPs have labelled the PTR records for the IPs. Latencies are also a good confirmation that they are roughly that distance away.

27th June 2012, 10:00 AM	#3
gcflora Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 592	The Australian National University in Canberra http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/indexabout.html

27th June 2012, 10:54 AM	#4
Davo1111 Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Syd Posts: 2,639	yep, it's at ANU. It's damn fast on campus