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Re: Security Patch Schedule

From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:56:33 -0500

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:09:05 GMT, "Piscitello, Frank" said:

Obviously on a college campus, the users want access to every system 24x7,
but that is not realistic.


The nice thing about having load balancers, hot-fallback setups, and other
similar tricks to survive a system outage is that you get to test them by doing
rolling upgrades when patches come out.  I've seen an amazing number of sites
totally fail to leverage that ability...

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