Em 25-03-2014 23:27, n...@leviacomm.net escreveu: > 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). > Why don't you create your own internal mirror? Or your own external mirror if you have the bandwidth/server available? I did had a complete mirror for internal installs with siteXX and I didn't used ftp. Please, help us purge this protocol from the internet. If your siteXX has sensible information you can use ssl with authentication.
Cheers, -- Giancarlo Razzolini GPG: 4096R/77B981BC
