Whatever you're doing, it is wrong. You think you cannot properly filter HTTP.
But you can properly filter FTP. Riiiiiiiiight. Suuuuuuuure. Keep believing that. > I am upgrading hundreds of boxes a day with only have serial access to > them. Installing from an external source would bring any server I use > to its knees (I end up using 4-5 Gbps of bandwidth during upgrades. > > I assume packages will still be able to grabbed over ftp, although I > suspect I should be planning for that to go away too at some point. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets > From: "Shawn K. Quinn" <skqu...@rushpost.com> > Date: Tue, March 25, 2014 6:38 pm > To: misc@openbsd.org > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014, at 08:10 PM, n...@leviacomm.net wrote: > > Thanks and I understand the reasoning. The current ftp server won't be > > able to do http and use of siteXX files prevents using an external > > source. Will nfs be supported or am I going to need more hardware? > > What is preventing you from using, say, a USB thumb drive as the install > media? Also note you can install from multiple sources (http for > everything else, then a local disk for the siteXX files). > > -- > Shawn K. Quinn > skqu...@rushpost.com
