On Thursday 03 April 2003 15:22, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Intresting idea. Its something i've been thinking about as well I think > something that should help reduce bandwidth costs and the bottleneck of > the current rhn system would be to deploy rhn servers in all the offices > not just in the states. so rather than the load comming into one place > it will be spread out all over the world. for example > rhn.redhat.com.au is based in Brisbane so users from Australia would > login to there, which cuts out the need to get onto the international > backbone which as far as i understand it data transfer costs more using > international links (please correct me if i am wrong) so now Red Hat > syncs there servers in all the different countries we login to the > closest server Red Hat pay less for international data transfers. it > probably wont save the costs of data transfers with your solution but > provides mechanisms to ensure the integrity of data. but mostly it > would spread the load over more systems and data networks providing > hopefully faster local access and quicker turn around times resulting in > more users able to get the priority service. Except this is a security nightmare, to try to maintain so many super secure sites. RHN servers _have_ to be secured, physically and digitally. Imagine if you will a non-secure RHN site, where somebody manages to upload a trojaned update, and sign it w/ RH's key. How many people will then be infected w/ this trojan? If financial losses are incurred because of this breakin, is RH responsible for all the companies that lose money due to the trojan? -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r
