[99568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: windows update cache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Sep 28 12:45:43 2007
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:44:08 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070928162520.GK12169@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007, Joe Johnson wrote:
>> Windows Software Update Services doesn't require the end-user to be part
>> of a domain to get updates. You just need to define the WSUS server as
>> the source for updates by changing a few registry entries and make sure
>> the server is available via HTTP or HTTPS to your customers. You can
>> read more at Microsoft's site.
>>
>> Also, WSUS is free to run on any Windows server.
>
> Great if you're running a windows IT type LAN; crap if you're running an
> ISP!
>
Why? It talks TCP/IP.
~Seth
