On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:46:58 GMT, John.Airey@xxxxxxxxxxx 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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