On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:38:16PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
Look dude, that ftp site made something available before any of the
second level mirrors were even opened up to other sites to retreive
it. Deliberate action was taken to release something early without
mirroring it from a credible source. Judging by the contents, not all
of it was exactly 4.5. This is cause for concern to anyone using the
mirror.
How many unofficial ftp servers are there on this dangerous
internet which are or might or could be having wrong packages? This is
what ftp.html is all about right? Why is there a list of official
mirrors anyway?
It's not like the operator of the site could have done this
*accidentally* - This showed some kind of deliberate intent to release
something early, and they obviously didn't seem too concerned if it
was 100% correct. I don't know the reason, and I don't care to. All I know
is that when we see it, that says danger.
This is the german coast gard. We are thinking... That's ridiculous.
Mirroring is based upon trust. Whoever's running that site obviously
decided to go rogue and do something goofy. I don't care who mirrors
openbsd, but I expect them to actually mirror it through authorized
channels, not put something up early that is deceptive to the users
and potentially harmful. When we *SEE* evidence of this being done, not
telling the user community is simply irresponsible.
great reasoning. Now I get it! The word I was missing is trust.
I almost forgot: In god we trust. Thanks for the reminder.
* Mike Belopuhov mi...@lucifier.net [2009-05-04 04:55]:
C'mon, ftp.kd86.com was delisted from the ftp.html page on Mon Apr 6.
Can you just stop bashing Wim? It doesn't make anyone happier (except
Theo probably). Or maybe we should rush searching the whole fscking
internet for the incorrect OpenBSD mirrors? Chill out, dudes.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:21 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
Users are cautioned about rogue ftp sites claiming to have OpenBSD.
The best place to get OpenBSD is from an official CD set, produced in
a secured location
It has come to our attention that some ftp sites (ftp.kd85.com) which
are not official OpenBSD mirrors are purporting to serve OpenBSD 4.5
at this time. We have noted that what is actually present in the 4.5
directory is not 4.5, but rather a late development cycle snapshot which
they have moved into place claiming it is 4.5.
While we have no problem with anyone mirroring OpenBSD for the good
of the user community, we do believe that people who offer up the wrong
thing are being deceptive and will hurt the userbase - particularly when
the packages being offered up are not the release versions.
please ensure you look at http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html when
choosing to do an ftp install, and don't be fooled by someone phishing
for your ftp traffic.
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