Re: Eisner/Encompasserve down

On 2024-08-30, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:

On Thu, 2024-08-29 at 19:01 -0400, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

Hunter Goatley likely needs to reboot the system; Process Software is
now hosting EISNER.

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BLASPHEMY!
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Isn't it enough to restart SSHD?
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No. VMS (in the form of Eisner) has proven very poor at resisting
internet probing and attacks. Attackers are routinely able to
cause all non-paged memory to be consumed, hence forcing a system
reboot (or maybe even a forced crash and reboot when even the
console has stopped responding).

I don't know if it's the TCP/IP stack in use, or the applications
running on top of that stack, or something else, but a VMS system
with full exposure to the wider internet does not appear to be a
robust system.

Simon.

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