Nessus News (2.2.1 / Plugin Feed / New WebSite)

[Martin Mačok]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:29:39AM -0500, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz

> if you generate too much traffic (believe it or not, there are
> people out there downloading all the Nessus plugins _EVERY MINUTE_).

What about using Coral web cache for getting rid of this? It could be
as easy as

a) server change: 302 redirecting to
   http://www.nessus.org.nyud.net:8090/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz

and/or

b) client change: patching nessus-update-plugins to point to
   http://www.nessus.org.nyud.net:8090/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz
   
For more, look at
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/

This could dramatically reduce server load/bandwidth with almost no
trade off.

Martin Mačok
IT Security Consultant