Victoria Indymedia using Ireland as a fallback server

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday October 06, 2002 21:16 by Dan Bashaw - Victoria Indymedia

Resist Locally, Post Globally!

Solidarity from Victoria IndyMedia in British Columbia, Canada! Here's a bit of an early warning: you may find a sudden infestation of Canadians posting to your NewsWire in about 24 hours...

Solidarity from Victoria IndyMedia in British Columbia, Canada! Here's a bit of an early warning: you may find a sudden infestation of Canadians posting to your NewsWire in about 24 hours...

Here's why: In the past the Victoria IndyMedia server has been taken out under suspicious circumstances during major demostrations and direct actions. (The weekend of a big union rally at the BC Legislature early this year our connection was mysteriously cut for the duration, and during the occupation of a local right-wing politician's office we were hacked down for the duration). In case of a repeat attack we have selected two 'fallback servers' within the Global Indymedia network. The fallback servers are:

First Fallback: Adelaide IndyMedia at http://adelaide.indymedia.org.au/

Second Fallback: Ireland IndyMedia at http://www.indymedia.ie/

These servers were selected because they are outside of Canadian legal jurisdiction, and are in time zones where our posts will occur at non-peak hours, and will not be too disruptive of your local news.

If Victoria IndyMedia goes dark, we will switch our posts to the Adelaide Indymedia NewsWire, and if that server goes down, we'll move on to Ireland Indymedia... "Resist Locally, Post Globally!"

Interested in more background info? Check the feature story at: http://victoria.indymedia.org