All squeak map servers down?

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Mar 30 18:09:11 UTC 2004


Thanks ces. This is good for us to know what was happening.

On 30 mars 04, at 19:20, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Ned Konz  <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> said:
>> Looks like they're down.
>>
> They were. Long story, but somehow our UML hosts got infected by the
> Linux.OSF.8759 virus (one of the hosts took part in our Apache shared
> hosting cluster at one point, which is the Linux equivalent of having
> unprotected sex...). Usually, it's a benign virus (unless you haven't
> got your machines decently firewalled), but on these two machines the
> effect was devastating because it got attached to the binaries in the
> initrd image - a virus-infected chroot in your initrd does not exactly
> help stability...
>
> The end effect was that we've literally been hunting this thing down 
> for
> almost a week before we found out what was wrong. Everything has been 
> cleaned now and our UML server farmlet is now purring and humming as 
> usual..
>
> (the list outage was related - as part of the error finding we
> rebooted the UML NFS server/mailman host to various kernel/NFS combo's,
> during the last reboot yesterday we forgot to check whether mailman was
> running).
>
> The moral of the story: never start your own ISP.
>
> And now, back to our regular programming...
>
>
>
> -- 
> Cees de Groot               http://www.tric.nl     <cg at tric.nl>
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>
>




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