@JoshGitlin OH it's an ESXi box... yah you'd have to stop (or disconnect) all the guests, but if they're hitting your management IP too you're screwed...
Is there a special "I'm not a douchebag" checkbox I can set somewhere in Pandora? Its science-fair experiment of a matching algorithm plays me shit like Staind now and again
OK well this tech support guy thought Apache runs inside VMware ESXi and he could ssh in to the host and stop Apache. Wow. But he also did say he could have them unplug it for me
@JustinDearing probably remembers dealing with the CA DDOSes (though that was all tiny packets, almost no bytes) -- If you saturate your fast, cheap link you wind up routing traffic over the more kerspensive ones
so what they're charging you may not make up for their transit bill that month
@voretaq7 Hold on, my victory dance may have been pre-mature. It did it once, but I put the same lines on another job and it keeps referring to my previous volume even though... it's not referencing hat ANYWHERE ...
As a migration strategy away from Windows Home Server (which is currently out of support and intractable for our needs, for a variety of reasons), our little cloister of nerds has targeted Greyhole for our shared use at home. Despite the documentation's terseness, getting the system set up for si...
@voretaq7 Yay! It's working! Albeit. I actually have to change all the jobs to new times, etc because this somehow makes Bacula want to use the correct Volumes. Not a big deal, annoying, only have to do it once... like it's stuck somehow, but yeah. Yay!
@Adrian The real deal is you'd make your backups using another tool like the Percona tool or the Zmanda tool, then back up THOSE backups as part of your Bacula schedule
@JoelESalas nor should there be really -- your DB backups should make something that can be picked up and moved to tapes. At least that's how I treat 'em.
@JoelESalas Ok. Boss is thinking about dropping $25k on Iron Mountain or some other solution, but I talked him into adding Bacula to the evaluation list.
For me I've got a shit-ton of FreeBSD machines and a couple of Redheaded Stepchildren running Debian. The office is all Macs when I get around to that.
@Adrian it's like riding a bike - you never forget how
no, the printer did not deserve it. It was a target for the rage we all felt toward a Netport Express print server. But the print server was a tiny thing and it broke up into unsmashable bits after the first baseball bat to the head, and we weren't keeping the printer so.... collateral damage.
@JoshGitlin mmmaybe -- they can definitely do it at their router or the firewall for your machine, but the problem is if they do it for one user they start doing it for everyone and the router or firewall configs get nasty.
If you have firewall services as part of your contract though they should be able to put that rule in (as part of your management or for whatever fee they normally charge for minor ruleset changes)
OK, so, all my IPs are down except my pfSense firewall. The firewall is denying all connections from everyone except my local office IP. I am still seeing massive packet loss and very sluggish SSH / HTTPS to the firewall. If the only IP that is active is my firewall and the attacker is hitting that and the firewall is configured to drop all traffic from any IP besides my residential IP, would the attacker still be able to saturate my link?
I have a 24 core machine with 94.6GiB RAM running Ubuntu server 10.04. The box is experiencing high %iowait, unlike another server we have (4 cores) running the same types and amounts of processes. Both machines are connected to a VNX Raid fileserver, the 24-core machine via 4 FC cards, and the o...
building a custom blog. build the cms - database done - simple - goto integrate it into the main site - no menu item for the blog. um... wtf does it go?
@ewwhite In 1970, Peter Neumann coined the project name Unics (UNiplexed Information and Computing Service) as a pun on Multics, (Multiplexed Information and Computer Services).[9] Unics could eventually support multiple simultaneous users, and it was renamed Unix.
I already wrote about the main reason I left WWU. Specifically, the paltry excuse for summer I had out there. Well, it's been a year since that article and I figure it's time for a weather update.Anecdotal reports held the...
