Re: Using multicast for security updates

[Daniel Sterling <dan@lost-habit.com>]

Interesting, indeed. Looks like multicast is available on some networks:
http://www.multicasttech.com/status/mbgp.sum

But the best place to ask this type of question might be the
debian-admin or debian-mirrors mailing list.
 
npmrphy@adelphia.net wrote:

>Has this concept been considered?
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>Instead of having all users connect and DL their own copies of security updates (which requires tremendous bandwidth), would it be possible to use multicast to 'broadcast' the updates. The thought is that updates could be distributed without saturating the server's link(s).
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