[tor-talk] Securing a Relay - chroot

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu May 26 14:31:42 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 06:44:19AM -0700, CACook at quantum-sci.com wrote:
> On Thursday 26 May, 2011 05:37:06 Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > Why don't you like Linux vserver? My relay did some 350 GByte/day,
> > in a vserver guest on a low-end Atom box.
> 
> It must necessarily share the network setup with the host, 

You don't have another NIC to bind it to? Isolate the
traffic via VLANs?

> and so the LAN class C since I can't set up the router 

So you're worrying about a compromised vserver guest
compromising the host, which is then used to attack
your LAN segment?

> downstream with multiple IPs.  Not secure.  Also it would 
> have the same firewall settings, and that is not acceptable either.


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