On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Mark Spencer wrote: > I've been considering the nature of Asterisk, its security, the bug > tracker, and more... And i've come up with an interesting idea: A > "message of the version". The idea is that Asterisk has a compile time > 32-bit unsigned int version which is incremented whenever some major new > bug is fixed. When Asterisk starts up (and periodically, maybe once per > day), it sends a packet with the version number to a server at Digium, > along with a message level (INFO,MINOR,MAJOR,CRITICAL) and the Digium > server replies (if it receives the packet, if not, it might get sent again > in a day) with any INFO, MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL messages which are > associated with that version of the code. In this way, an asterisk > administrator could easily see if there were any major issues, critical > security updates, etc, that his system might need to be updated for.
This could easily be done with simple dns lookups and TXT records, eg do a TXT query for version#.digium.com. The nice thing is that because of the distributed and cached nature of DNS, it is inherently resistant to high loads and outages -- especially if you have secondary/tertiary servers. -Dan _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
