Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

[Andrew Boothman]

Brett Glass wrote:
> At 01:35 PM 5/12/2006, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
>> Patch Tuesday again, I guess.
> 
> Yes. We call them "Black Tuesdays," because the Windows machines go out
> and mount a very effective denial of service attack on our supply of
> bandwidth. We've had to work out all kinds of ways to limit the impact.

If you're using Microsoft servers you can serve patch upgrades from your 
own servers instead of having each desktop contact Microsoft.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx

Might be worth using even if you don't normally use Microsoft servers if 
the monthly updates cause you big enough bandwidth problems?

Andrew