Re: Regarding SASL

2009-10-28 Thread Martin MC Brown
Toru, The problem with iptables is that is only protects based on a host/ port combination. If I have a shared server with 400 people having their own hosted directory in Apache, with iptables I can certainly restrict my memcached instance to only accept connections from that server. But

Re: Regarding SASL

2009-10-27 Thread Dustin
On Oct 27, 8:04 pm, Toru Maesaka wrote: > Makes sense considering the growing popularity of shared networks. > However, here's my humble comment on this use-case... can't people > just use iptables for protecting their memcached host/port in a shared > network? or is this feature intended for p

Re: Regarding SASL

2009-10-27 Thread Toru Maesaka
Awesome! Thanks for clarifying things. Makes sense considering the growing popularity of shared networks. However, here's my humble comment on this use-case... can't people just use iptables for protecting their memcached host/port in a shared network? or is this feature intended for people that

Re: Regarding SASL

2009-10-26 Thread Dustin
On Oct 26, 9:35 am, Brian Aker wrote: > I had someone ask me about this at the conference I am at currently.   > Are you all likely to release this soon? Yes. It's been through a few stages of review, has tests, and there has been at least some client interop effort (I've got cyrus sasl2

Re: Regarding SASL

2009-10-26 Thread Brian Aker
Hi! On Oct 27, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Dustin wrote: As a bonus, the code already existed. We'd talked about it a long time ago and I built some stuff that worked then, but just got around to cleaning it up enough to go (you can see the commits are from early I had someone ask me about this at t

Re: Regarding SASL

2009-10-26 Thread Dustin
On Oct 26, 1:33 am, Toru Maesaka wrote: > From chasing the commit log and reading Trond's blog entry, I noticed > that we're throwing in SASL support to memcached. > > I guess this is to make it friendlier to deploy memcached on an > untrusted network (e.g. Amazon's EC2) but I wanted to hear wh

Regarding SASL

2009-10-26 Thread Toru Maesaka
Hi folks! >From chasing the commit log and reading Trond's blog entry, I noticed that we're throwing in SASL support to memcached. I guess this is to make it friendlier to deploy memcached on an untrusted network (e.g. Amazon's EC2) but I wanted to hear what the actual deciding factor was. You k