Will we be notified when we can do an update without adversely effecting the Debian project? And what time frame would this be in?
Thank you! Ciao! Martin Schulze wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Security Host Bandwidth Saturation [EMAIL PROTECTED] > September 20th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050920 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation > > The recently released security update of XFree86 in DSA 816 for sarge > and woody has caused the host security.debian.org to saturate its > 100MBit/s network connection entirely. Due to the large number of X > packages, the gross size of these packages and the high number of > users who need to install the update, the server is busy sending out > updates which exhaust its total outgoing bandwidth. > > This incident happens before new a security infrastructure is in place > which would have avoided this. At the moment we ask our users to > accept delays in their update until the situation is relaxed again. > > Yesterday morning, at about 11 o'clock (CEST, i.e. UCT +0200) the > files for the security update DSA 816 (XFree86) were installed on the > public security server. The result was similar to a distributed > denial of service since literally thousands of users tried to fetch > the updates. Since then the host saturates its network connection > entirely. > > Independent of this there have been discussions about restructuring > the security infrastructure in order to provide a more failsafe > solution, that can also deal with high bandwidth peaks better than a > single machine. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
