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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>
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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

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