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Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy?
From: Aaron Cheek <aaron_cheek () yahoo com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:02:33 -0700 (PDT)
More of a risk than up2date for RedHat or emerge -u system for Gentoo? Or cvsup for *BSD?
Certainly!!! For Red Hat (and all the major distros), you have a zillion mirrors all over the world, and, additionally, you can in extremely straightforward way (e.g. wget -r) bulk download all the patches from any of those mirrors and apply them in a glitch (rpm -F). Even if DoS attacks against the official names, IPs or whatever take place, you always have your "local" mirror to download patches from, which will be named as mymirrorsite.mymirrordomain.mycountry. And if the guys from RedHat (et al.) are wise enough, they can set up out of band channels to distribute the patches to the mirrors in the event of a major DoS attack. No single point of failure, as you can see. Aaron __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
Current thread:
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Stefano Zanero (Sep 02)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Paul Schmehl (Sep 03)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Kurt Seifried (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Jeremy C. Reed (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Stefano Zanero (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Barry Fitzgerald (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Lawrence MacIntyre (Sep 03)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Andrew Gideon (Sep 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Aaron Cheek (Sep 04)
- RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Schmehl, Paul L (Sep 04)
- RE: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Schmehl, Paul L (Sep 04)
- Re: Windows Update: A single point of failure for the world's economy? Paul Schmehl (Sep 03)