Re: audit-packages/download-vulnerability-list integration?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:36:43PM +0200, Ulrich Habel wrote:
> 3.) Load for TNF
> 
> That's a problem - true. I like the idea of randomness. We should add a
> "splay" time so that not every client in a timezone nails netbsd.org
> with requests at the same time. What about some dns magic for that? We
> could set up a round-robin dns for the mirrors so that the vuln file
> will be requested for a set of mirrors.

With proper support for signatures and timestamps, this would be a lot
less of a problem. We need to decide on that though.

Joerg