[ale] Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

[philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)]

On 04/18/2013 02:50 PM, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> On 4/18/13 12:41 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> 
> 
>> Oh yeah, I'd forgotten those details:  with OpenVZ (and probably
>> LXC?) you can't configure iptables, as you're sharing a kernel.
>> You also can't use tun/tap interfaces, for the reasons Michael
>> mentioned -- which means you can't run an OpenVPN server, for
>> example.
> 
> 
> Yeah, this isn't true anymore regarding tun/tap.  My OpenVPN servers
> are in fact LEB OpenVZ boxes.

Mine too.

> The iptables bit, though, unfortunately, is true.

That's odd.  Iptables seems to work for me on both openvz vps vendors
I'm using.  (The more recent of the two is the ChicagoVPS Atlanta
special posted here recently.)

> And most of them are struggling to enable IPv6.  Some have it, most don't.

Phil