Sarocet wrote:
The new hostname updates would still have needed the kill signature. Otherwise, you have the same problem as before, but with a different hostname.
Someone wasn't reading. The scheme was to remove the original hostname BEFORE using any updates that would kill the software. At that point, older versions would just stop updating and wouldn't break.
Now it's been pointed out that there are a sizeable number of third parties providing mirrors, I now agree that this would not have been reasonably practical. It may have still worked with different filenames, with the added bonus of being able to examine logs and work out the scale of the problem - ie how many installations were still accessing the old names vs the new names.
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