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smpatch access to remote servers

The more recent versions of Solaris come with an online patching utility smpatch. This requires access to various servers on the public Internet. I cannot find any definitive documentation on exactly which servers are accessed, the documentation only suggests updates.sun.com, but this is patently not the whole story. There seems to be a system of redirects and load balancers in place that mean a bunch of other servers might be queried as well. This makes creating outbound firewall rule sets difficult.

So far I have made up the following list. The /24 networks are not entirely necessary, but I'd rather be a little generous here than having to add IPs to my rule set every time I want to patch. Access does seem to be restricted to port 443.

72.5.124.61
80.231.19.70
80.231.19.71
195.176.255.0/24
198.232.168.0/24

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