Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:11:53 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <20020418211153.GP89460@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418141843.021d1540@nospam.lariat.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418120815.021c6580@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418115527.021d9f00@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418114128.02156980@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418115527.021d9f00@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418120815.021c6580@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418141843.021d1540@nospam.lariat.org>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:29:37PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > I've looked at this. It looks like the right idea. But: > > 1) It's halfway around the world, in Japan. Downloads can be quite > slow. Why isn't it on the main FreeBSD FTP server and mirrors? It's not any farther from midwestern USA. I get 160ms pings from both ftp.freebsd.org and snapshots.jp.freebsd.org, and similar download rates (~105KB/s). But it would be nice to see on mirrors. > 3) Is it really a "p3" build? Or is it a snapshot of -STABLE? It looks > as if at least part of it (maybe all of it) is rebuilt every day. Just because it's rebuilt every day doesn't mean it's not a p3 build. It's possible to build things more than once. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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