Re: Failure Rate for Heimdal SW?

[Niklas Edmundsson <nikke@acc.umu.se>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> I have one of those availability requirements that says Kerberos can't fail 
> for more than X hours per year.  Now I've got good historical data on the 
> hardware/OS that I can put in that form.
>
> Anybody got any "software failures" which are remotely statistical in nature? 
> Any ideas on how to assign an availability number to the software component? 
> Any failures that require/cause a Kerberos restart?

Would security-related bugs count as a software failure?

By "Kerberos", do you mean the Kerberos server(s) or the entire 
Heimdal package?

/Nikke
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