From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 24 13:46:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8E0137B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 10272 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Apr 2001 20:46:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:46:37 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Calvin NG , Sean Chittenden , Jeff Kletsky , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_version perl hacker project Message-ID: <20010424134637.A10180@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424120052.H89156@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104241907.f3OJ7u103414@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010424123517.A90547@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010424123517.A90547@xor.obsecurity.org>; from "kris@obsecurity.org" on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at = 12:35:17PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quick summary: 1) advisories will be pulled from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/CERT/advisories 2) the advisories will be cached locally in /var/db/pkg_advisories 3) the pkg tool will display various levels of information depending on the= verbosity desired 4) the pkg tool will be integrated, or will depend on the functionality fro= m pkg_version My problem with FTP is as follows: 1:39pm root@rand:/var/db/pkg_advisories # ftp ftp.freebsd.org Connected to ftp.freebsd.org. 220 usw3.freebsd.org FTP server (Version DG-4.1.73 983302105) ready. 530-Sorry, but there are too many users logged into this machine now. 530-The maximum limit is 400 while we're on temporary hardware, 530-ftp.freesoftware.com (AKA the old ftp.freebsd.org) is off the net 530-for now and there is unfortunately no ETA for its return. 530- 530-Please try back in a few minutes, or try the alternate servers at: 530- 530- ftp://usw1.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ 530- ftp://usw4.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ 530- 530-They are sharing the same contents as this one. 530-My apologies for the inconvenience! -jkh 530- 530 User anonymous access denied. ftp: Login failed. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ftp.freebsd.org' I get that quite often and have been for a few years. Are you sure that an HTTP method couldn't be made available? ftp is an expensive protocol because it's interactive, not to mention that the protocol designers didn't have firewalls in mind. HTTP, though less efficient in terms of data transfer for large files, is much easier to program, distribute, scale, etc. Thoughts? -sc On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:35:17PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > The advisories live in a well-known place > (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/CERT/advisories): an algorithm might be to > check the directory for any new files, and mirror them locally to > e.g. /var/db/advisories to save on bandwidth the next time the script is = run. >=20 > The script can also display chunks of the advisory to describe the > details of a vulnerability it finds. >=20 > Kris --=20 Sean Chittenden --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAjrl5i0ACgkQn09c7x7d+q09QgCgn9Mfo7se8bmGj2aTYGOFl50c BukAn1ORzWM8n+iwOGiQdcB4SjKNHKzX =FUio -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message