Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Grsecurity.net website down?
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:45 am Post subject: Grsecurity.net website down?
In the past two days I noticed that from www.grsecurity.net or forums.grsecurity.net no page can be accessed.
I checked it up on sites like http://isup.me and it wasn't just me, but the site was not up.
I was wondering whether anybody knows, or has some means to find out and tell us, what happened.
I very much like grsecurity/pax and am a little worried.
Sounds worse than than just this being only downtime.
I am wondering, too: Are we going to see some >=hardened-sources-3.19 in a not so distant future?
>=hardened-sources-3.19 in a not so distant future?
Just if some less advanced FOSS Linux users read here.
kernel. That is all of mv's suggestion.
An this below is my further thought on mv's suggestion.
program, which I don't and many many FOSS Linux users in the world don't.
I can't have peace, and can't investigate.
All the little working time of mine today is these posts here. The rest of the time is lying in bed.
What should frinds do, if they care for you?
I didn't suggest anything. I am just wondering whether hardened-sources will be continuing. Probably somebody from the PAX team knows more and can say something about the situation.
It took 71 ms for a 200 response code with an ip of 50.251.85.49.
I can confirm that grsecurity.com is back again. Perhaps it was a temporary issue, only?
Might it be a symptom of ipv4 address exhaustion?
As we eke out the last ipv4 addresses there is a secondary problem - sometimes the routing tables get a bit messy. In order to patch smaller address blocks into place, some routes occasionally become unreachable from some places. In other words, there may be times when one of your upstream routers had to choose between getting to PointA or PointB. Not to play favorites, but someone else requested PointA first, and until that routing entry expires you just can't get to PointB.
I suspect this explanation won't sound satisfactory, but when I heard it, it was much better made. The problem is my defective memory in trying to explain it here. I know I've seen similar apparent routing failures since hearing about it.
Since several people (from probably different countries; I also tried from several machines from rather different nets) had the same issue for some days, this is not very likely, especially since now everything seems to work again for everybody. It is more likely that grsecurity.com was down for some days for some reason (maintenance, political/financial issues, or whatever).
(which I understood was your suggestion), from my further thoughts not connected to your suggestion.
Anyway, I'm at peace now that www.grsecurity.net (not .com as stated above somewhere) is up!
Those are my heroes in FOSS, spender and PaX Team! Regardless of what some people think, without them, FOSS Linux would be miserable as far as true security goes, as I explained further above in my previous post which I'll try and correct now!