Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:14:56 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Distribution of the FreeBSD vulnerability database Message-ID: <4035DE20.20103@fillmore-labs.com>
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Dear hub maintainers, I'm working on a project that notifies system adminstrators of vulnerabilities in installed packages, it is available as port security/portaudit. I need to distribute a database with a list of vulnerable ports that is daily updated. The database is ~ 2k in size, but I expect it to grow. Currently I'm using public_distfiles of my freefall account and fetch from MASTER_SITE_LOCAL. This approach is suboptimal, because - it takes long for all mirrors to get the update - I have to refetch the whole file, since I can not simply check if an update is available I guess it would be better to distribute this file by http and have an additional url where I can just check the current version/md5/whatever, but I have absolutely no clue which load this will place on the servers. Any advice from the experts? Thanks Oliver (sorry for the repost, I seems like my first didn't come through)
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