[pca] 403 errors even with valid contract

[Ben Taylor]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> I don't like stating truisms, however if you look outside and see that
>>> water is falling from the sky, this is because it is raining. If you see
>>> that you can not get patches for free anymore for Solaris 8 or 9 or 10
>>> then that is because you can not get patches for them anymore. At least
>>> not freely.
>>
>> Just like stated in the subject of the thread, both the original poster
>> and me *do* have a contract we pay for. It's not that we want something
>> for free, just what already gets paid for.
>
> whoa.
>
> Do you have a support contract for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 also ?
>
> I only have Solaris 10 covered on my servers here and those all work as
> expected but the Sol 8 and 9 patches fell of the availability list some
> time ago. If you hold a legacy support contract ( very large dollars by
> the way ) then by all means something is very wrong. Unless the access and
> delivery interfaces for those services are different.

My company has a support contract but not legacy (though we still have some
S8 boxes around - had to reboot some 1700 day uptime systems yesterday...).
We have been able to get S9 and S8 (well, except anything released since
4/1/09), but I have tried since the "changeover"