From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 18 10:54:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5112137B404 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18135; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:54:35 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook may make your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418115015.021cc7d0@nospam.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@nospam.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:54:28 -0600 To: David Wolfskill , david@catwhisker.org, schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org, security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip In-Reply-To: <200204181747.g3IHlDiq029335@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114128.02156980@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:47 AM 4/18/2002, David Wolfskill wrote: >So build yourself a "snapshot" that suits you; test it according to the >needs of *your* environment. If you are unwilling/unable to do so, >arrange for someone else to do it for you. Neither is as effective as sharing information about the quality of a snapshot among a large pool of administrators and testers. If this is not done, the snapshot won't be tested under a sufficient variety of conditions to flush out problems. > It's possible that someone >would volunteer to expend his or her time and other resources to do this >for you for free, out of gratitude for something, or some such thing; How about a group of volunteers who do it for their mutual benefit? Sort of like some software projects I've heard of.... Gee, their names seem to be escaping me at the moment. ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message