Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 10:17:34 EST


Followup to: <20031107051048.GA6099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Larry McVoy <lm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.

-hpa
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