Nicholas Lee said:
Citylink's policy on the donation of bandwidth has been affected by the change to peering policy in NZ. Which is fair enough.
I can see Citylink's point of view in that providing mirrors uses a non-trivial amount of bandwidth, etc. However, if you're going to have a hostname which suggests that such and such is a New Zealand mirror, then make it available to everyone (or at least everyone within NZ), or drop the hostname and let someone else be the NZ mirror. Or at the very least, fix the message users get when they can't login.
I've heard some talk of another machine being put together for APE. I'm not sure if this will include *BSD content. Maybe if the space is available citylink will allow a second machine for a BSD mirror on APE.
I've also heard talk about it, but not from anyone at Citylink. Cheers Michael