If the plugins were packaged as a .tar.bz2 file instead of a .tar.gz file then I think you'd save ~33% of your bandwidth for this. I download the tar.gz file here, unpack it then repack it as tar.bz2 and ship it out to my scanners. The .bz2 file is generally about 800KB instead of 1.2MB. I realise that some people probably wouldn't be able to use a bzip2 compressed file so it might be necessary to host both but, hopefully, the check for bzip2 support could be done in update-nessus-plugins and be transparent to the user (i.e. download and use tar.bz2 only if bzip2 found in $PATH).
That'd get you down to "only" 14GB/month ;-) Wouldn't stop abuse like fetching the plugins once/hour but would reduce bandwidth requirements for legitimate users. -----Original Message----- From: Renaud Deraison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2004 18:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Nessus 2.0 on SuSE 9.0 Pro with KDE 3.1 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:06:58PM -0400, George Theall wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Yeomans, Andrew wrote: > > > See article posted on > > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8744 > > Not a bad article for the uninitiated, but I suspect that the part > telling users to update their plugins *every hour* will make Renaud > cringe! Yeah. Some people were downloading up 20 gigs of plugins per month... Most of the time I have to firewall them out. -- Renaud _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus __________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Atos Origin group liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. __________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
