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Proxy/cache server for Patches
From: William Little <wm_little () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:23:59 -0800 (PST)
Hello, I work for a University with many schools and many IT departments within those schools so I have no control over patch levels of servers and must rely on departmental LAN managers to keep their servers up to date(they are very lax). In an attempt to make my life easier, I recently brought up a FTP box (with a mirror program) for our UNIX servers that are cut off from the Internet to access patches. It seems like a very antiquated solution and started think that a proxy server just for patches might be better. Off the top of my head: we could proxy the web sites and cache the ftp sites; use DNS to point the servers to our proxy server (that way I don't have to have the LAN managers change anything on their boxes); maybe use it for Windows update too. I don't know Proxy servers that well but theoretically it should work. Anyone used this or have any thoughts about this? Thanks in advance, Bill Little __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- SurfControl E-mail Filter puts the brakes on spam, viruses and malicious code. Safeguard your business critical communications. Download a free 30-day trial: http://www.securityfocus.com/SurfControl-security-basics
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