Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air | Date | 9 Nov 2003 07:16:15 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20031107051048.GA6099@work.bitmover.com> By author: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > As many of you have figured out, I took kernel.bkbits.net (aka bk.kernel.org, > cvs.kernel.org, and svn.kernel.org) of the air yesterday due to the breakin > that attempted to add a trojan horse to the kernel source. > > I took it down after talking with Linus and Dave about it, the point was to > shut down the disk drive so that we can go do forensics on it after the fact > and see what we can figure out. Maybe someone can track down who caused the > problem. > > This means someone has to go down to the colo with a new disk and do > an install and we've been too busy to do this. Would anyone object if > this wasn't done until this weekend? We're pretty booked up here with > other work. Last I checked only about 6 IP addresses where using the CVS > server, I've never checked on the SVN server (Ben? You have any idea?). >
That doesn't include anyone who uses the mirrored repository on the main kernel.org machines. Doubt it's a big deal with the timing, though.
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