Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:16:47 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Jeff Palmer <scorpio@drkshdw.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <15551.28671.448890.421578@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20020418171454.E23267@rain.macguire.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020417230144.032ad390@nospam.lariat.org> <200204171923.g3HJNga58899@freefall.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020418095356.024354c0@nospam.lariat.org> <012901c1e725$da237e90$0286a8c0@jeffrey> <20020418154338.D23267@rain.macguire.net> <20020419014351.M60925@mail.webmonster.de> <20020418171454.E23267@rain.macguire.net>
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> > > Like it or not, Brett has raised a concern which is entirely valid and echoed > > > by many system administrators. ( I have a feeling the number is not small ) > > > > but you are missing the point that _administrators_ have the option (and > > the knowledge) to upgrade from source, using a builder system, just like > > most freebsd admins with larger installations do. > > Indeed they do. Doing this for 1000 individual servers, even when > scripted, is an incredible task, and not very feasible. Doing *anything* to 1000 individual servers running ANY OS is an incredible tasks, regardless of what is being done. Why is FreeBSD being singled out here? > Quite a few shops do have the luxery of being able to maintain and release > internal builds. Quite a few more do not. Either way, its still a good > opportunity for someone who can. =) Any shop that has a significant # of servers that I've worked with takes the time to do internal builds using a standard set of hardware. Otherwise, you spend more time chasing your tail than in solving problems. (Again, this issue is orthogonal to the issue of which hardware/software is being used). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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