Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-12 Thread Nux!
On 12.03.2014 01:13, Amogh Vasekar wrote: Hi, I was looking at your blog and found you have mentioned that : The problem is the intermediate CA cert cannot be added from the web interface. Can you please let me know the error you faced while uploading the intermediate CA cert via the UI?

RE: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Angus
Just thinking out loud; Would using a secure vnc connection over http achieve the same result as using a secure http session - the authentication token is in the initial url anyway.. Regards, Paul Angus Cloud Architect S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447711418784 | T: @CloudyAngus

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-11 Thread John Kinsella
The console technology doesn’t really matter. The encryption is the part of concern. You have two choices: * Shared secret: set up a crypto password in advance, get it onto the CPVM and browser in some secure manner. Basically, however you do this you’re compromised once somebody sniffs the

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-11 Thread Amogh Vasekar
Hi, I was looking at your blog and found you have mentioned that : The problem is the intermediate CA cert cannot be added from the web interface. Can you please let me know the error you faced while uploading the intermediate CA cert via the UI? Thanks, Amogh On 3/7/14 11:19 AM, Nux!

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-10 Thread France
Please let us know, what was the Citrixes response to community run realhostip.com service.

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-10 Thread John Kinsella
I mentioned their response on 3/3. Basically their position is they think they’d be doing the community a disfavor by passing the torch” (quoting my previous email, not a direct quote from them but this is their position) The realhostip cert provides a false sense of security, so I can’t think

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-09 Thread John Kinsella
Folks - just applied Amogh’s patch to 4.3-forward, and back ported that to master. Two steps left on the code side: * Need to get this retirement into the 4.3 docs * Need to backport this to 4.2 John On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, John Kinsella j...@stratosec.comailto:j...@stratosec.co

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread France
Hi all. Are we going to have a solution for older versions like 4.1.1? I think we can already change that domain to something different currently in settings. Hopefully it's not hardcoded anywhere else. Is it? I think it's the right thing to move away from such solution in future versions,

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Nux!
On 07.03.2014 14:55, France wrote: Hi all. Are we going to have a solution for older versions like 4.1.1? I think we can already change that domain to something different currently in settings. Hopefully it's not hardcoded anywhere else. Is it? I think it's the right thing to move away from

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Amogh Vasekar
Hi, The design on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Realhost+IP+changes (big thanks to Kelven!) mentions a third work mode, that would use a load balancer as the front for CPVMs. Since this is an exact address, it would not need a wildcard cert and (hopefully) make it a

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
You could use this article as well: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133468 Does not require you to use the java solution. On 3/7/14, 11:19 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 07.03.2014 14:55, France wrote: Hi all. Are we going to have a solution for older versions like 4.1.1? I think we

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread John Kinsella
Soo…I’d recommend against something like Nux’s suggestion below. I’ve only looked briefly at VirtualDNS.java, and it looks fine from a glance, but I’m willing to bet I can a) DOS it, and b) use it for a reflection attack. I could be wrong, don’t really have time to look closely, but based on it

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Nux!
On 07.03.2014 20:28, John Kinsella wrote: Soo…I’d recommend against something like Nux’s suggestion below. I’ve only looked briefly at VirtualDNS.java, and it looks fine from a glance, but I’m willing to bet I can a) DOS it, and b) use it for a reflection attack. I could be wrong, don’t really

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Nux!
On 07.03.2014 20:19, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: You could use this article as well: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133468 Does not require you to use the java solution. Thanks, I've updated my post with it. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
You should require 1 record for the ACTUAL public IP used by the ConsoleProxy VM. On 3/7/14, 12:39 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 07.03.2014 20:28, John Kinsella wrote: SooŠI¹d recommend against something like Nux¹s suggestion below. I¹ve only looked briefly at VirtualDNS.java, and it looks

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Nux!
On 07.03.2014 21:30, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: You should require 1 record for the ACTUAL public IP used by the ConsoleProxy VM. I know, but if the VM is destroyed or an additional one is spawned it could have ANY IP.. I mean, I really don't want to track this kind of stuff, doesn't scale.

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-07 Thread Erik Weber
I planned on looking at the Lua part of PowerDNS for this :-) -- Erik Weber 7. mars 2014 22:48 skrev Nux! n...@li.nux.ro følgende: On 07.03.2014 21:30, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: You should require 1 record for the ACTUAL public IP used by the ConsoleProxy VM. I know, but if the VM is

RE: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-06 Thread Paul Angus
] realhostip.com going away It’s not. On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Erik Weber terbol...@gmail.commailto:terbol...@gmail.com wrote: How is security being handled in HTTP mode? -- Erik On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Amogh Vasekar amogh.vase...@citrix.commailto:amogh.vase...@citrix.comwrote

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-06 Thread Kelven Yang
:05 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away On 2/28/14 2:03 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: There's also the problem of the certificate. It comes bundled in ACS as far as I can tell.. When does it expire? notBefore=Feb 3 03:30:40 2012 GMT notAfter=Feb 7 05

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-06 Thread John Kinsella
paul.an...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Amogh Vasekar [mailto:amogh.vase...@citrix.com] Sent: 28 February 2014 23:05 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away On 2/28/14 2:03 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: There's also the problem

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-05 Thread Erik Weber
] realhostip.com going away On 2/28/14 2:03 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: There's also the problem of the certificate. It comes bundled in ACS as far as I can tell.. When does it expire? notBefore=Feb 3 03:30:40 2012 GMT notAfter=Feb 7 05:11:23 2017 GMT Need Enterprise Grade

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-05 Thread John Kinsella
It’s not. On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:48 AM, Erik Weber terbol...@gmail.commailto:terbol...@gmail.com wrote: How is security being handled in HTTP mode? -- Erik On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Amogh Vasekar amogh.vase...@citrix.commailto:amogh.vase...@citrix.comwrote: Hello, I have created a

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-04 Thread John Kinsella
While this patch might address the direct problem, a quick string search of the source shows “realhostip.comhttp://realhostip.com” in a few more places that also need to be cleaned up, including in the db. I haven’t actually applied the patch yet, just read over it a few times. Will try to

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-03 Thread John Kinsella
...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Amogh Vasekar [mailto:amogh.vase...@citrix.com] Sent: 28 February 2014 23:05 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away On 2/28/14 2:03 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: There's also the problem

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-03-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.03.2014 16:58, John Kinsella wrote: I talked with some of the Citrix folk over the weekend…their position is they think they’d be doing the community a disfavor by passing the torch, so-to-speak, and I agree with them [1]. From what I understand, the patches that are going to be proposed

[DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread John Kinsella
Folks: Recently the PMC was informed that the realhostip.com DNS service that ACS currently uses by default as part of the console proxy will be disbanded this summer. We’ve been informed the realhostip service will be shut down June 30th, 2014, so we have approximately 4 months to mitigate

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread Erik Weber
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:27 PM, John Kinsella j...@stratosec.co wrote: Folks: Recently the PMC was informed that the realhostip.com DNS service that ACS currently uses by default as part of the console proxy will be disbanded this summer. We've been informed the realhostip service will be

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread Alex Hitchins
I'd be interested to see if I could help with continuing the service too. Let me know if I can assist. On 28 Feb 2014, at 20:51, Erik Weber terbol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:27 PM, John Kinsella j...@stratosec.co wrote: Folks: Recently the PMC was informed that the

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread Amogh Vasekar
Hi, I'd love to contribute to this in any way I can. On a side note - the service is used in parts by SSVM for HTTPS support as well. Thanks, Amogh On 2/28/14 12:27 PM, John Kinsella j...@stratosec.co wrote: * For 4.4, we should no longer be using SSL/realhostip for console proxy. We¹re

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread Nux!
On 28.02.2014 20:27, John Kinsella wrote: Folks: Recently the PMC was informed that the realhostip.com DNS service that ACS currently uses by default as part of the console proxy will be disbanded this summer. This kind of thing was bound to come biting our arses sooner or later. Getting the

RE: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread Alex Hitchins
-Original Message- From: John Kinsella [mailto:j...@stratosec.co] Sent: 28 February 2014 20:27 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away Folks: Recently the PMC was informed that the realhostip.com DNS service that ACS currently uses by default as part

Re: [DISCUSS] realhostip.com going away

2014-02-28 Thread Amogh Vasekar
On 2/28/14 2:03 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: There's also the problem of the certificate. It comes bundled in ACS as far as I can tell.. When does it expire? notBefore=Feb 3 03:30:40 2012 GMT notAfter=Feb 7 05:11:23 2017 GMT