[PLUG] security.debian.org up in flames (and others) (fwd)

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

Probably relevent here as well...

(Martin's the guy who ran the key-signing at LISA 2000. He went to
Swarthmore with me, lives in Switzerland these days, and is a
maintainer for various Debian packages.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Subject: security.debian.org up in flames (and others)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:46:58 +0100
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[excuse the crosspost]

This is on slashdot, but also startling. don't flame me.

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/132259&mode=thread&tid=99

in short, the Dutch Twente NOC caught fire this morning, hosing
security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org. In addition, large portions
of Kazaa and a lot of Warez sites. It's totally one of the more
important NOCs for Europe.

Use the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list instead, until
klecker.debian.org is set up to become security.debian.org. This will
probably happen within the next 24 hours, but don't hold me
responsible if not.

  deb ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/debian-security stable/main contrib non-free

Note that there won't be any security fixes added to that server until
security.debian.org is back.

Check http://www.bsdfreaks.nl/files/brand.htm for pictures.

Wow!

-- 
martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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