Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (517 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 July 2010 13:09:04 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Another is that do you have to activate nfs, server in one, client on
> another.

Well, even with your idea, there has to be some sort of manual intervention. 
You do not want a daemon that automatically opens a port in the firewall and 
connects to other machines that happen to be in the same LAN. Somehow you have 
to decide which machines are trusted, perhaps by looking at their host keys.

So completely automatic it can never be. Security dictates otherwise.

Apart from that it looks like you have an interesting idea. There are of 
course already server solutions where you set up one server and push packages 
out to clients from it. This is what I personally prefer in a network with 
many machines, partly because it gives me one point of administration, and if 
a package fails for some reason I don't have to look through every machine to 
find the failing package and clean it out. But if you really prefer this peer-
to-peer idea, then I wish you luck with it

Anders
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