Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

[Darren Pilgrim]

Andrew Boothman wrote:
> 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?

That and disabling Automatic Updates.  Corporate computers should never 
be in charge of their own upgrades.