Re: Sun M-class hardware denial of service

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:53:11PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> 
> Apparently you just plain can't understand simple english.
> 

and apparently you cannot read the whole message - I said "too bad if
OpenBSD cannot do this"...

> If you put someone running OpenBSD into a zone, and that zone locks up
> completely and cannot be reset because of a flaw Sun has now admitted,
> then if you NEED that zone back, you have to power the machine down.
> 

are you talking hardware zone or a Solaris zone?  You are being sloppy
with your terminology.

> If you don't understand that, you must be really really stupid.
>

Here we go again - any time anyone disagrees with you they are too
stupid to see.  Sorry, I don't buy it.  You are just trying to beat
something up.
 
> 
> You want to talk about trust?  The entire idea is that you could
> TRUST the zones to do their job.
>  

Do you have any evidence to the contrary that a solaris zone cannot
prevent random kernel modules being loaded?  If you don't then you are
just spreading FUD.

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