Periodic email about security notifications

[Olafur Osvaldsson]

Kirk,

On Mon, 05 May 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> At 2003-05-05T15:31:16Z, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at bellavista.cz> writes:
> 
> >     or something like this?
> >
> >     security_advisory_mirror_list="ftp0 ftp1 ftp2 ftp3 ftp4 ftp5 ftp6 ftp7"
> >
> >     getMirror () {
> >         set -- $security_advisory_mirror_list
> >         security_advisory_mirror=$(eval echo '$'`jot -r 1 1 $#`)
> >     }
> 
> There's nothing at all wrong with that.  My goal, though was to
> automatically add that functionality to *every* program that would
> ordinarily connect to ftp.freebsd.org.  With the exception of changing some
> default values, no programs would have to be modified to get the new
> rotating-mirror capability.

There is one big problem with that, the ftp[1-9]? servers are all in the US,
there should be a way to impliment this with the int. mirrors to.

Wich brings up one question, why isn't there a us.FreeBSD.org domain for the US
mirrors.

/Oli

P.S. Copy sent to freebsd-hubs also.

-- 
Olafur Osvaldsson
Systems Administrator
Internet a Islandi hf.
Tel:   +354 525-5291
Email: oli at isnic.is