Mailing List Archive: ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ???

ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ???

Jul 12, 2002, 5:41 PM

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I am wondering which release of ONTAP I should be running on a
leading-edge (but production) server here...

We are currently running 6.2R2D2 --- the D2 part because we wanted
the fix for 70674. We usually run the FCS release, but not a Dx one,
so this makes me somewhat uneasy. Now 6.2.1 is out and FCS, and has
70674 in its fix list, so it would be natural to change to that.

But meanwhile we've got the question of 75012 (the CA-2002-19 bug-in-
-most-known-DNS-resolvers thing) outstanding. We think we're pretty
well protected against it being exploited, but will be a lot happier
with a fix. This *isn't* listed as fixed in 6.2.1. The Bugs Online
entry for 75012 names a number of Dx releases in which it is fixed,
including 6.2R2D6, but there's no mention of a 6.2.1D<anything>.

So I need to decide between 6.2.1, 6.2R2D6, or waiting for something
else.

Maybe toasters isn't the best place to ask about this ... can NetApp
people even post to the list again yet?

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

Re: ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ??? [ In reply to ]

cet1 at cus

Jul 20, 2002, 3:04 PM

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I got some helpful advice from people in NetApp on this one. If
anyone else is thinking along the same lines, they might like to
know of the existence of 6.2.1D1 which is just 6.2.1 plus a fix
for 75012 (the CA-2002-19 thing). 6.2.1D1 isn't mentioned in the
Bugs Online entry for 75012 yet, nor can it be downloaded from
now.netapp.com, but it does exist and you should be able to get
hold of it if you ask nicely!

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

Re: ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ??? [ In reply to ]

jlkennedy at amcc

Jul 22, 2002, 6:12 AM

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Actually, you can download any of the debug versions of Ontap from their
ftp site.

~JK

Chris Thompson wrote:
>
> I got some helpful advice from people in NetApp on this one. If
> anyone else is thinking along the same lines, they might like to
> know of the existence of 6.2.1D1 which is just 6.2.1 plus a fix
> for 75012 (the CA-2002-19 thing). 6.2.1D1 isn't mentioned in the
> Bugs Online entry for 75012 yet, nor can it be downloaded from
> now.netapp.com, but it does exist and you should be able to get
> hold of it if you ask nicely!
>
> Chris Thompson
> Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

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Re: ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ??? [ In reply to ]

cet1 at cus

Jul 22, 2002, 9:41 AM

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jlkennedy@amcc.com (Jeff Kennedy) writes:
>
> Actually, you can download any of the debug versions of Ontap from their
> ftp site.

I was actually told to get 6.2.1D1 from ftp.netapp.com, but wasn't entirely
sure that this was meant to be public knowledge.

There's also the problem that downloading from ftp.netapp.com is 100-1000
times as slow as downloading from now.netapp.com. It was a really painful
business fetching the 42 MB tar file, I can tell you!

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

Re: ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ??? [ In reply to ]

jlkennedy at amcc

Jul 22, 2002, 9:51 AM

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Slower, but better than not having it at all...

I would think that if it wasn't meant for public consumption it wouldn't
be on an anonymous ftp server.

~JK

Chris Thompson wrote:
>
> jlkennedy@amcc.com (Jeff Kennedy) writes:
> >
> > Actually, you can download any of the debug versions of Ontap from their
> > ftp site.
>
> I was actually told to get 6.2.1D1 from ftp.netapp.com, but wasn't entirely
> sure that this was meant to be public knowledge.
>
> There's also the problem that downloading from ftp.netapp.com is 100-1000
> times as slow as downloading from now.netapp.com. It was a really painful
> business fetching the 42 MB tar file, I can tell you!
>
> Chris Thompson
> Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

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