[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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