[ale] Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

[dev null zero two]

burstable ram is the worse part of OpenVZ since there's no practical way to
limit memory usage even with ulimit etc. so processes randomly get killed
if using burst ram for too long.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 4/18/13 12:41 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> >
> >
> > Oh yeah, I'd forgotten those details:  with OpenVZ (and probably
> > LXC?) you can't configure iptables, as you're sharing a kernel.
> > You also can't use tun/tap interfaces, for the reasons Michael
> > mentioned -- which means you can't run an OpenVPN server, for
> > example.
>
>
> Yeah, this isn't true anymore regarding tun/tap.  My OpenVPN servers
> are in fact LEB OpenVZ boxes.
>
> The iptables bit, though, unfortunately, is true.
>
> And most of them are struggling to enable IPv6.  Some have it, most don't.
>
>
> Brian
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