[67227] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 5 15:19:20 2004
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:56:13 EST."
<20040205195613.46EC57B43@berkshire.research.att.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:11:41 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:56:13 EST, "Steven M. Bellovin" said:
> Why is that bad? I have no objection to giving vendors a reasonable
> amount of time to fix problems before announcing the whole. Or is your
> point that two days hardly seems like enough time to develop -- and
> *test* -- a fix?
Two days is plenty if it's a Homer Simpson-esque "D'Oh!" bug. Probably
not if it's something that requires some regression testing.
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