[Vserver] Denial of service issue

2006-06-13 Thread Russell Kliese
I was just reading an article on kernel trap that raised some issues about linux-vservers: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6492 . In particular, the following denial of service attack from within a vserver seemed worrying because of it's simplicity. run a program doing `mkdir(aaa); chdir(aaa);' in a

Re: [Vserver] Denial of service issue

2006-06-13 Thread Guenther Fuchs
Hi there, on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 1:16:48 PM there was posted: RK Is there work being done to prevent such DoS attacks? Yes, on his linuxtage task Herbert mentioned this already beeing fixed (minimum in development release) through directory limits to be set on guest configurations

Re: [Vserver] Problem with debian guest on mandriva host

2006-06-13 Thread Xavier Montagutelli
On Monday 12 June 2006 22:16, Francis Giraldeau wrote: Hi, When creating a debian vserver on a debian host (util-vserver 0.30-210, kernel 2.6.16) and tranfering it on a mandriva host (util-vserver 0.30-208, kernel 2.6.16), i got this error : [EMAIL PROTECTED] terp1]# vserver terp1 start

[Vserver] Slides presenting Linux VServer

2006-06-13 Thread Xavier Montagutelli
For those interested, I have written a presentation (in PowerPoint ... sorry) about Linux VServer : in french, under GNU/FDL. I hope it's not full of errors ! I put a link under http://linux-vserver.org/Documentation It is located at

[Vserver] localhost problems revisited

2006-06-13 Thread Mike Schneider
Hello, I'm at my last try to port an OpenExchange server, setup with SLES9 and the commercial Version of OX, to a VServer. I've gotten so far that everything seems to work, apart from the admin interface, which is written in java. Which makes debugging hard. I've narrowed the problem down to

Re: [Vserver] Denial of service issue

2006-06-13 Thread Christian Heim
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 11:26, Guenther Fuchs wrote: This is not only a vserver DoS attack as far as I understood, this is a general Linux issue I guess. Yup, it is also a Mainline issue. -- Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Developer - vserver/openvz pgpyRmkAesWEA.pgp

Re: [Vserver] Slides presenting Linux VServer

2006-06-13 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Xavier Montagutelli wrote: For those interested, I have written a presentation (in PowerPoint ... sorry) about Linux VServer : in french, under GNU/FDL. I hope it's not full of errors ! I put a link under http://linux-vserver.org/Documentation It is located at

Re: [Vserver] totem-video-thumbnailer within vserver?

2006-06-13 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:43:24PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: Ok, this is going to be a little out there. I am trying to run the totem-video-thumbnailer inside a vserver and this is the error message I get: ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config

Re: [Vserver] Denial of service issue

2006-06-13 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:16:48PM +1000, Russell Kliese wrote: I was just reading an article on kernel trap that raised some issues about linux-vservers: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6492 . In particular, the following denial of service attack from within a vserver seemed worrying because of

Re: [Vserver] Slides presenting Linux VServer

2006-06-13 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:24:43PM +0200, Xavier Montagutelli wrote: For those interested, I have written a presentation (in PowerPoint ... sorry) about Linux VServer : in french, under GNU/FDL. I hope it's not full of errors ! I put a link under

Re: [Vserver] Denial of service issue

2006-06-13 Thread Russell Kliese
Thanks for all of your replies. I posted a reply on kerneltrap in case other people are interested in what is happening with this issue. Russell ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org