[ibiblio-announce] report on last night's outage
Don Sizemore
dls at metalab.unc.edu
Mon Jul 10 13:52:04 EDT 2006
Hi all,
Please accept our apologies for last night's web and ftp outage,
which lasted from aproximately 8:40 p.m. EDT until just after
midnight. The content management system of one of our virtually
hosted sites was compromised, driving the load up on our vhost
servers, and a simultaneous UDP flood threw our load balancers for a
loop.
We're still in the process of cleaning all of this up, but our web
and ftp services have been back up since midnight EDT and we've taken
steps to ensure that this particular problem doesn't happen again.
A reminder on the importance of running current versions of software
packages, and the benefits of healthy paranoia when considering file
and directory permissions, group access, etc.
Thank you all for your patience through this, and an especially huge
thanks to John Reuning, who graciously (and expertly) volunteered his
services during last night's investigation.
Cheers, 919.962.5646 w
Donald Sizemore, ii 919.260.4915 c
ibiblio.org n stoof 919.962.8071 f
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