> Quite a bit was invested in making the DHCP server
> scale really well in large environments; the ISC server we're told does
> not scale as well.
I think it is fair to say that "scale really well" is fairly subjective. By
default, the Solaris' "Enterprise DHCP" mode essentially means sharing t
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Dave Miner wrote:
> The Netra HA suite actually does, though I may not have known it at
> the time you asked (which I don't recall, to be honest ;-)
That's OK, it was eons ago. :)
> I'm pretty sure, though, that I would have pointed anyone who asked
> at
> The main concern I have is whether Solaris will provide
> the patches as soon as any vulnerabilities come out, especially for
> Apache?
While vulnerabilities get fixed fairly quickly, the biggest problem with using
the bundled Apache is that new features (such as large file support) tend to
t
> one quick addendum: mod_php is available via the
> companion CD, fwiw.
The last time I looked at the companion CD, it also suffered from
ancient-version-itis as well as bad compile options for certain applications.
The lack of integration into jumpstart is also a bit of a pain, even if someone
> Stranger still is the bigtime differences between the
> Sun ssh and the version I have here from Blastwave :
Most of those differences lie in how GSSAPI (Kerberos) support was added.
Sun's libgss == MIT (or is that Heimdal?)'s libgssapi_krb5, libkrb5,
libk5crypto, libkrb5support, etc, at a m
CC:'ing the sysadmin discussion list as well.
> Don't forget bcfg2. I'm also evaluating at the
> moment...
+1 to bcfg2. I stayed away from Puppet mainly because a) I wrote a
Sun-internal app by the same name that did the same thing and I'm afraid I'd
confuse myself and b) I didn't want to depl
