Re: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:46:58 GMT, John.Airey () rnib org uk  said:

> From experience, you can't just lock down to that one server. You need to
> allow port 80 and 443 access to different servers. Each day the list of
> servers changes because of the Akamai caching that is used. I spend some
> time configuring locked down systems to be able to talk to them. So yes, it
> is an unreasonable request.
>
> On the other hand, access to Red Hat Network needs only one port and one IP
> address. No doubt there's some serious load-balancing going on in the
> background.

If RedHat had the same "customers times patch frequency times average patch size"
product that Microsoft has, they'd be an Akamai customer too...

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