Mmmm mirrors

Wow.

1.2+ Gbps traffic from the mirror.ac.za front-end in London.

gov.za proxy fail

The *.gov.za services that are proxied behind iproxy1.gov.za all seem to have fallen over, while the services that are proxied behind iproxy2.gov.za seem to be fine:

iproxy1
cemis.wcape.gov.za
www.westerncape.gov.za
www.services.gov.za
www.search.gov.za

iproxy2
www.gov.za
www.info.gov.za

Could be a proxy issue, or maybe Telkom playing games again, or even a local failure. Weiiiird.

More Firefox and ISA

The advice in the previous post about Firefox interacting badly with Microsoft ISA seems to be outdated.

The correct advice now:

1. Open (i.e. type) about:config in the location bar
2. Search for network.negotiate-auth.allow-proxies in the search bar
3. Double-click the line to set the value to false

You should now be able to enter your username/password combo once, have it remembered, and not be pestered with millions of pop-ups.