On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:03 PM, etorreborre <etorrebo...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks a lot David for putting the machine back online.
>
> I'm wondering if there's an item missing in the list. I've been trying
> to upload a new jar to the Nexus repository but this didn't work. Is
> it also back up?
>

No.  Only the static service of the stuff in the Maven repository.  Nexus is
not up.  sftp is not up.  Hudson is not up.  WebDav is not up.


>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric.
>
> David Pollak wrote:
> > Folks,
> > scala-tools.org is back online.  Hudson is not building and we're not
> > pulling from EPFL, so nightlies are not happening.  This will be
> rectified
> > over the weekend.
> >
> > The machine running scala-tools.org, liftweb.net and wiki.liftweb.netwas
> > not configured properly.  I did not have a firewall and port 25 was left
> > open and was an open relay.  I was notified on Saturday that the machine
> was
> > responsible for redistribution of some mail containing viruses.  At the
> > point that I was notified, I shut down the mail server.  However, the
> > machine become the target of what appears to be a denial of service
> attack.
> >  See the attached graphs indicating that the machine was saturating its
> > 100mbps bandwidth.
> >
> > I have taken the offending machine off-line and I mounted its disks on
> > another machine and removed the static contents.  I have not been able to
> > reboot the machine to pull its MySQL contents and thus am not able to put
> > wiki.liftweb.net online.
> >
> > I will get a static version of the liftweb.net site up in the next day
> or
> > two, but wiki.liftweb.net will wait until I can boot the machine in
> > isolation (in the event that it was compromised) and dump the
> > wiki.liftweb.net database.  I expect that the Lift-related sites will be
> > fully functional by Tuesday 4/14.  Note that I'm on vacation this week
> and
> > the incident cut significantly into fun time with the family.
> >
> > Going forward, I'm planning to do a couple of things:
> >
> >    - Isolate the layers of the machine running scala-tools.org such that
> the
> >    administration of the machine is different from the functioning of
> >    scala-tools.org
> >    - Create a stand-alone Hudson build machine that is separate from
> >    scala-tools.org so one can be administered without the other
> >    - Create Xen snapshots of Hudson build machines that will be able to
> >    build untrusted code from untrusted repositories (this will help with
> GitHub
> >    integration)
> >    - Have a couple of scala-tools.org mirrors so that even if one of the
> >    machines goes down, the others will be available
> >    - Create a team of people, all of whom can take care of the various
> parts
> >    of scala-tools.org so that it's not all about me and DavidB
> >
> > Relating to the last item, if you're interested in being part of the
> > scala-tools.org administration team, please contact me privately.  I
> hope to
> > get this effort rolling the week of April 20th.  If you've got bandwidth
> and
> > disk space available to be a scala-tools.org mirror, please contact me
> > off-list as well.  I'm especially interested in people with machines on
> the
> > east coast of the USA, in Europe, and in Asia.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience.
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net
> > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
> > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp
> > Git some: http://github.com/dpp
> >
>


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Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
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