<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello<div><br></div><div>NCUC’s email lists were down for a week until I noticed yesterday and asked the e-team folks to look into it. Please read the below. The server was under attack. To strengthen its defenses, Tapani says we need to spend a few more pennies. I would think this is priority number one for our funds. Stefani and Roy have already expressed support for this on the e-team list. I would ask that others here respond quickly so that we can act.</div><div><br></div><div>I formally propose authorization of whatever expenditure is needed to increase the memory by 3GB (Tapani didn’t specify the amount, but if 2GB is $5/month 3GB can’t be a budget buster.</div><div><br></div><div>Would appreciate a rapid response here folks.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>BIll</div><div><br></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info">ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>[NCUC E-team] Server memory upgrade</b><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">October 16, 2014 at 12:54:22 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"<a href="mailto:e-team@lists.ncuc.org">e-team@lists.ncuc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:e-team@lists.ncuc.org">e-team@lists.ncuc.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It might be prudent to get some more RAM for it.<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>On Oct 15 15:41, Brenden Kuerbis (<a href="mailto:bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org">bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org</a>) wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">If the EC authorizes it, I can work with the Treasurer here in LA to bump<br>memory up. Any recommended amount?<br></blockquote><br>At least bump it up to 2GB (now it's 1.5G), which should cost<br>something like $5/month (less if paying for more at once). If budget<br>isn't too tight more might be useful, say up to 3GB - that might be<br>overkill but even though adding memory is fairly easy, it still costs<br>people's time and work every time, so too small increments may not be<br>worthwhile.</div></blockquote>
<br><div><div>On Oct 16, 2014, at 5:40 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO">ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">It looks like ncuc1 is presently under ssh dictionary<br>attack, authlog is full of stuff like this:<br><br>Oct 16 14:27:30 ncuc1 sshd[30041]: Failed password for root from 122.225.109.217 port 2955 ssh2<br><br>The attack won't succeed, root password logins have been<br>disabled since the beginning, but if it intensifies<br>it may slow things down (and it may be something like<br>that caused the overload last week, too).<br>It probably isn't particularly directed at us, looks<br>more like a script kiddie scanning everything in sight.<br><br>For the curious, the that IP address is in China.<br>If somebody feels like contacting their ISP,<br>whois gives good-looking contact info.<br><br>Otherwise, I guess it might be a good idea to tighten<br>the box a bit.<br><br>-- <br>Tapani Tarvainen<br>_______________________________________________<br>E-team mailing list<br><a href="mailto:E-team@lists.ncuc.org">E-team@lists.ncuc.org</a><br>http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e-team<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>