[plug] Machine Check Exception

[Shayne O'Neill]

teergrube mode!

 [German for `tar pit'] A trap set to punish spammers who use an address
harvester; a mail server deliberately set up to be really, really slow. To
activate it, scatter addresses that look like users on the teergrube's
host in places where the address harvester will be trolling (one popular
way is to embed the fake address in a Usenet sig block next to a
human-readable warning not to send mail to it). The address harvester will
dutifully collect the address. When the spammer tries to mailbomb it, his
mailer will get stuck.

Yeah man. 2 things.

teergrube mode! Its actualy meant to do the reeeeeealy long time
thing. It seems from looking around, that teergrube mode *could* be using
some sort of wierd ip_tables hack. Maybe this is whats causing the
shenanigans.

Do you *really* want to be using your server as an anti spammer attack
missile? Its cool and all, but ... I mean hey. Core services and all.



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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, bob wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:32 pm, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > Ok. Heres my punt..
> >
> > I'll take a guess your on a 2.6 kernel, and trying to load a nvidia
> > driver or something like that.
>
> 2.6 yes... nvida nope... its not got X running... its a server
>
> > The kernel grabs a lock, loads the elf binary (presumably the module) ,
> > has a hunt around, then for some reason the scheduler calls and blows the
> > lock out the water. panic!
>
> Thats why I was wondering if it was bad ram
>
> > What is it trying to load?
>
> This is not a panic on boot or anything like that (lost a 200+ day uptime on
> this :).
>
> As mentioned, about the only thing that it being pointed at is spamassasin.
> I have sa-exim running in teergrube mode and sometimes the processes take a
> looooong time to finish. Maybe something tripped over a timeout?
>
>
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