[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

ultr...@gmail.com ultradwc at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 10:50:54 EST 2021


On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 8:52:52 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-01-11, D W <ultr... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 1:21:26 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> On 2021-01-11, Stephen Hoffman <seao... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote: 
> >> > 
> >> > If you're thinking about a Parler-class app for instance, there are 
> >> > already some discussions of what's involved there that are going on 
> >> > else-network and which you may want to review?even if you're not 
> >> > re-hosting Parler, the problems are broadly similar at scale. 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Ok, _that_ possibility never occurred to me when I read Bob's original 
> >> post. Do you know something that the rest of us are unaware of ? 
> > 
> > maybe :) 
> > 
> >> 
> >> I would not recommend VMS as it stands today for such a high-profile 
> >> and potentially hostile environment. 
> >> 
> > 
> > you would prefer linux or windows? I thought OpenVMS was made for hostile environments. 
> >
> As mentioned already, Linux has a number of security and isolation 
> features that VMS is lacking.
> > Putting each user in a RWED controlled box along with appropriate ACLs 
> > I would assume would outclass any other solution out there, as long as VSI has terminated all of their C strings properly. :) 
> >
> If that's what you think security is all about in 2021 Bob, then you 
> simply don't have a clue about what is involved. 
> 
> BTW, you don't even have to go through security, you can go around it. 
> That's exactly what I did and all the protections and ACLs would have 
> made absolutely no difference. 
> 
> To everyone else: I keep warning you about security researchers possibly 
> taking a serious interest in probing VMS at some point in the future and 
> about everything that could come from that. 
> 
> If Bob sets up some kind of conservative social networking environment 
> using VMS (which it is a poor choice for anyway), then that is _exactly_ 
> what is going to happen.
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

if what you say is true you can thank the introduction of the c language
into the OS level development.



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