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Bugtraq Relocating

Posted by justin++ on from the no-more-geek-girl dept.

CrackBot writes "The bugtraq security mailing list, along with the geek-girl archives of it, have moved to securityfocus.com . There's also a vulnerabilities database, products and services listings, and other mailing lists and forums. Seems to be a good resource for the security-minded... "

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  1. Showing my ignorance by unitron · · Score: 1

    If they move this thing and all the archives of it to the same place isn't that sort of putting all your eggs in one basket? Is all that stuff going to be on the same machine?

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    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.

  2. Bye Bugtraq by bperkins · · Score: 1

    Now I guess we'll have to find something to do withour extra listserv capacity. Our zmail server had done as much as 1.2 million deliveries in day on a P2 running linux.

  3. Pre-emptive slashdotting by rde · · Score: 1

    Connection reset by peer, and not even a comment posted yet. Gotta be a record.

  4. Slashdotted already? by Raphael · · Score: 1

    Well, it did not take long... I was browsing the site and suddenly I got several "connection reset by peer" in various frames. Did their Roxen server crash? Or maybe they do not have enough bandwidth to serve all curious /.'ers?

    But still, securityfocus.com seems to be a very interesting site. From what I was able to see, they provide lots of useful infos and links to many useful tools.

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    -Raphaël
    1. Re:Slashdotted already? by schon · · Score: 1

      I doubt it crashed..(roxen has an automatic restart function that
      would restart the server in most cases anyway,)

      More than likely Aleph has the # of accepts set too low, and hasn't
      enabled http keep-alives.... (it's a pretty "busy" site - lots of
      connections requred for each page..)


  5. Updating by glyneth · · Score: 1

    They need to update the FAQ, it still lists subscribing via netspace.org.

  6. Re:Archives? by tqbf · · Score: 1


    The Geek-Girl archives were started first.
    Geek-Girl was hosting Bugtraq (even before
    it was Geek-Girl, back when it was a machine
    at NWU) since the before Elias (Aleph)
    took over the list.

    Note that both "Geek-Girl" (Jennifer Myers)
    and "Aleph One" (Elias Levy) have prominent
    roles at SecurityFocus.

    Anything good I say about SecurityFocus will
    be biased by the fact that it is run by friends
    of mine.

  7. Re:New archive by tqbf · · Score: 1


    Write them and complain. Elias and Jennifer
    have been maintaining Bugtraq and the archives
    for years, for no compensation, out of the
    kindness of their hearts. A nice way to return
    the favor would be to give them constructive
    feedback.

    The web guy at SecurityFocus is Dave Ahmed,
    .