Comment 8 for bug 162865

au.archive.ubuntu.com is currently pointing to AARNet

mark@net:~$ dig au.archive.ubuntu.com +short
mirror.aarnet.edu.au.
202.158.214.106

http://www.prevented.net/nagios3/ (guest/guest) doesn't show a lot of errors or timeouts in monitoring.

Also, a wget in .nl looks quite good:
mark@maximus:~$ wget -O /dev/null http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/d/darkice/darkice_0.20.1.orig.tar.gz
--2010-01-07 21:22:31-- http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/d/darkice/darkice_0.20.1.orig.tar.gz
Resolving au.archive.ubuntu.com... 202.158.214.106, 2001:388:30bc:cafe::beef
Connecting to au.archive.ubuntu.com|202.158.214.106|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 309319 (302K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 309,319 69.7K/s in 4.3s

2010-01-07 21:22:36 (69.7 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [309319/309319]