Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip

From: Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org)
Date: 04/18/02 

Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:54:28 -0600
To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, david@catwhisker.org, schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org, security@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

At 11:47 AM 4/18/2002, David Wolfskill wrote:

>So build yourself a "snapshot" that suits you; test it according to the
>needs of *your* environment. If you are unwilling/unable to do so,
>arrange for someone else to do it for you.

Neither is as effective as sharing information about the quality
of a snapshot among a large pool of administrators and testers.
If this is not done, the snapshot won't be tested under a sufficient
variety of conditions to flush out problems.

> It's possible that someone
>would volunteer to expend his or her time and other resources to do this
>for you for free, out of gratitude for something, or some such thing;

How about a group of volunteers who do it for their mutual benefit? Sort
of like some software projects I've heard of.... Gee, their names seem
to be escaping me at the moment. ;-)

--Brett

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