From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Mon 25 Jul 2005 - 08:14:58 BST
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:54:05PM +0930, Darryl Ross wrote:
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> Benoît des Ligneris wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Well, I think that this is a useful tool for the vserver project.
> >
> > We are using v_portmap as well as some others v_* scripts. After having
> > installed several vserver hosts I think it is much more easy to modify
> > the services than to go after every application and modify one or
> > several configuration file.
> >
> > Also, it is easy to check the existing services running on a given host
> > and to create the v_* scripts in order to make sure that no port
> > conflict will occur between the vservers and the host. This is a general
> > solution to this kind of problem whereas fixing each application
> > individually can be, IMHO, a pain...
>
> Then I would suggest that perhaps you are running too many services on
> the host?
>
> My philosophy is to keep the host as minimal as possible and run
> everything inside a guest (generally one guest per service). The only
> two services I run on my hosts are sshd and ntpd. Every other service
> that I might want to run on the host can be run inside a guest.
>
> I run sshd on all my machines on a non-standard port (2222 for hosts and
> 222 for guests) as a way of stopping my logs from filling up with
> door-knock attempts which also solves the port conflict issue.
good points and excellent suggestions!
thanks,
Herbert
> Regards
> Darryl
>
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