VPS security updates

[tomp]

SW-Soft the nice folks who make the Virtuozzo software just released several security updates for the Virtuozzo kernel. As such we will being immediately applying these updates and rebooting servers.

Please stay tuned here for more information.

Thanks!

Tom

[tomp]

vps7 will be rebooted in about 10 minutes.

[totalc]

How do I know what vps I am on?

[Ryan]

How do I know what vps I am on?

Hello,

When you do a traceroute, you should see something along the lines of "eq.ash.v#.myriadnetwork.com". The # is the node you're on.

[totalc]

Is there anyway to be notified of these types of reboots?

Other then coming to these forums everyday

[tomp]

Is there anyway to be notified of these types of reboots?

Other then coming to these forums everyday


http://forum.myriadnetwork.com/showthread.php?t=113

[tomp]

vps7 is back up

vps6 being rebooted.

[layer0]

http://forum.myriadnetwork.com/showthread.php?t=113

This certainly provides daily updates (which I have subscribed to) but is there a way to get instant updates? (daily updates really don't help in this case...)

[totalc]

How much notice is normally given for these types of things?

[tomp]

How much notice is normally given for these types of things?

For something that involves an attacker possibly crashing the hardware node or gaining root access we take care of the issue immediately.

If you have specific concerns please address them to support@myriadnetwork.com.

This thread is for tracking servers being rebooted.

Thanks.

Tom

[totalc]

This certainly provides daily updates (which I have subscribed to) but is there a way to get instant updates? (daily updates really don't help in this case...)

Exactly what I was thinking.

[tomp]

Exactly what I was thinking.



yup; my.myriadnetwork.com



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[minglong]

Has all the rebooting finished yet? I forgot what vps I was on and mine appears to be down. The traceroute doesn't seem to reveal anything past pccwbtn.

[Ryan]

Has all the rebooting finished yet? I forgot what vps I was on and mine appears to be down. The traceroute doesn't seem to reveal anything past pccwbtn.

Hello,

Some of the servers appear to be fsck'ing. Some are on their way up as we speak. Sorry for the delays, folks. These things happen when you have 120+ days of uptime. :)

[minglong]

Hello,

Some of the servers appear to be fsck'ing. Some are on their way up as we speak. Sorry for the delays, folks. These things happen when you have 120+ days of uptime. :)

Damn those consistency checks :p. Do you have any sort of rough estimate as to how much longer they'll be down for?

[Ryan]

Damn those consistency checks :p. Do you have any sort of rough estimate as to how much longer they'll be down for?

At this moment, no. Hoping soon; but we'll keep you updated!

[hantak]

At this moment, no. Hoping soon; but we'll keep you updated!

Any updates on how much longer till the checks are done?

[Ryan]

Hello,

v5 is currently undergoing fsck. More details to follow.

[tomp]

All I can ask is for everyone to have a little patience. We have no control over the FSCK. This is what we see when we reboot:

Checking all file systems.
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /install] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3: clean, 11/368000 files, 20840/734973 blocks
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /vz] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda4
/dev/sda4 has gone 299 days without being checked, check forced.

So.....the big '/vz' partion with everyones data on it is undergoing a filesystem check. This server does have the big 300GB SCSI drives so it may take a bit of time.

We will stay on top of the issue.

Thanks for your continued patience.

Tom

[hantak]

All I can ask is for everyone to have a little patience.

I totally understand. It just caught me a bit off guard. I just switched over to you guys 5 days ago and hadn't got on the mailing list yet.

But I'm on the list now.

Although so far I'm really happy with your service.

Thanks for keeping us in the loop,

- Chad

[Ryan]

Servers on V5 are on their way back up now.

[minglong]

Great, looks like mine's back. Time to go see why Apache rebelled and didn't start :p.

[Ryan]

All servers on v5 should be up by now. If you're still experiencing issues, please open a support ticket. Thanks for your patience.

[Special]

Will this be affecting vps4 as well?

[minglong]

Will this be affecting vps4 as well?

I think it affected every VPS but if you didn't notice it, then you're luckier and the update for your server's probably finished :).

[tomp]

Will this be affecting vps4 as well?

sorry, we got delayed last night waiting for a couple servers to finish fsck'ing. We plan to knock out the rest tonight. I will get a time for everyone here shortly.

Thanks.

Tom