An upgrade to Debian 6.0.7 was installed last night across all servers.
This work appears to have been successful and no adverse side-effects have been observed as at this time.
Debian 6.0.7 includes an update to the Xen hypervisor and Linux kernel binaries. To activate these, a reboot of the Xen server stack will be required. This will be scheduled shortly and an email will be sent to all affected clients.
The VRL servers now have a new backup script that does:
The script needs more work before it will be published in a public git repository
Today we have rolled out a new version of the rkhunter package – RKHunter 1.4.0 – to all of our managed hosts.
Its a relatively simple process on the Debian hosts:
This new version of rkhunter introduces a wider root-kit detection library and fisex several bugs which led to false-positive reports in the past.
Due to a number of kernel bugs patched in recent updates, Vandrad Research Labs will be scheduling server reboots in near future. More information as the schedule firms up
Debian foundation have advised that the stable Debian release, Debian 6.0 (aka “Squeeze”) has been released to public.
Vandrad Research Labs staff are in the process of updating our servers.
A list of updated packages and the offcial write can be found in the official announcement on the Debian foundation web page.
For a long time we have not looked at our prices, and how we structure our products and services.
Having done a through review, we have decided to streamline the services offerings and simplify our pricing. The very first result of this is our updated pricing structure for virtual servers and associated services.
Next off the rank will be an update of our shared infrastructure services followed by a review of the professional services/consultancy offerings.
All the work that was necessary for IP address migration has been completed (including clean-up works).
As at this time we do not anticipate any further service disruptions, other than the regular security patch updates.
Our upstream provider have advised that they need to migrate us to a different IP subnet.
Much fun is about to be had by all… some VM reboots required.
Check back on this page for more information…
A scheduled reboot of the Vandrad Research Labs Xen server stack has been successful. All servers appear to have come back on-line without a problem.
The reboot was necessary to update the kernel and to distribute new modules to all Xen hosted instances.
The Debian foundation have announced that as of 6 FEB 2012 they are terminating the ongoing security support for Debian 5.0 aka “Squeeze”. All customers using this release of Debian Linux are requested to upgrade to current stable distribution of Debian Linux – Debian 6.0 aka Debian “Lenny”.
The full text of the advisory can be found here on the Debian news website.