TCP/IP security patch

[IS Ops account]

Volker,

You're right. I should have started a new thread.
Thanks for your help here. I just moved then.

Cheers,
IO

[H_Bachner]

Sorry for leaving this thread open for such a long period.

Many thanks to all who offered valuable suggestions and info regarding the security patch, and special thanks to Volker for his detailed analysis of the contents of the various generations of patch kits and additions to the original bulletin. I owe you a beer or two when we meet next time :-)

Also thanks to the TCP/IP maintenance engineers who listened to this thread and updated the patch kits to deliver better quality ECOs. I'm confident that future ECOs will reach the standards again which the OpenVMS community is used to (and expects).

Closing this topic.
Hans.

[Ian Miller.]

Updated version of this patch now available as TCPIP_NTP_PAT

[H_Bachner]

Ian, thanks for updating this thread with the latest information! Actually, there are several versions of the TCPIP_NTP_PAT patch available - at least for versions from V5.5 through V5.7, for Alpha and Itanium.

If someone from engineering is reading this thread as well: could you please update the "patch description" field of the various TCPIP_NTP_PAT patches? It still contains this template text:

"This will appear in the ITRC interface next to the patch ID. For example: DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS Alpha V7.3 ECO04"

Also, the new patches are missing the Release Notes :-(

Thanks for listening.

Closing this thread again,
Hans.

[Volker Halle]

And there is a typo in

HP-I64VMS-TCPIP_NTP_PAT-V0506-9ECO5D-4

...
3.2 Version of TCPIP to which this kit may be applied
OVMS I64 TCPIP V5.5

...
should be:

OpenVMS I64 TCPIP V5.6

Volker.

[Ian Miller.]

comments passed on :-)

[Ian Miller.]

patch descriptions should be updated soon :-)