> More of a risk than up2date for RedHat or emerge -u > system for Gentoo? Or cvsup for *BSD? Certainly!!! For Red Hat (and all the major distros), you have a zillion mirrors all over the world, and, additionally, you can in extremely straightforward way (e.g. wget -r) bulk download all the patches from any of those mirrors and apply them in a glitch (rpm -F). Even if DoS attacks against the official names, IPs or whatever take place, you always have your "local" mirror to download patches from, which will be named as mymirrorsite.mymirrordomain.mycountry. And if the guys from RedHat (et al.) are wise enough, they can set up out of band channels to distribute the patches to the mirrors in the event of a major DoS attack. No single point of failure, as you can see. Aaron __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
