Re: [WT-CHANGES] tcpdump.org mirrors

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

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> > > > > "mlh" == mlh  <mlh () zip com au> writes:
    mlh> Grant Bayley wrote:
    >> I run the main mirror of tcpdump at wiretapped.net (no relation to
    >> wiretapped.us) in Australia.  We rsync from cvs.tcpdump.org, and have
    >> removed the entire tcpdump.org tree and disabled rsync updates until we
    >> hear from Michael Richardson at tcpdump.org.

    mlh> Couldn't the verifying of signatures be done as
    mlh> part of mirroring.

  Native rsync can't do this, which is what most mirror operators are using.
I'm not sure that they'd appreciate the CPU impact either.

  Certainly, it would be good if the mirror operators set things up such that
they never overwrote files, then we might be able mitigate damage.

  Producing PGP key for tcpdump.org has gotten lost on priority lists.

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