[gopher] gopher server security. WAS: gopher hosting

[Mateusz Viste]

Simply close your gopher server daemon inside a jail, if you are really 
scared. Even if the gopher daemon gets somehow hacked, the attacker 
won't be able to get out of jail anyway.

Motsognir provides native support for jailed instances, on top of being 
written with utter care about security and isolation.

http://motsognir.sourceforge.net

You might want to read the security chapter of the Motsognir's manual as 
well (page 19). A link to the manual is provided on the website above.

Mateusz





On 13/05/2016 01:57, J. R. Johnstone wrote:
> Long time lurker here. Though I do appreciate the work you all do to
> keep gopher going.
>
> I am thinking of running a gopher server on a VPS I have with Linode.
>
> I wanted to gauge all your guy's opinions about how secure it would be
> to host a gopher server on a VPS that also had web sites.  What I am
> getting at is do you think modern gopher servers are secure enough or
> should I isolate it to its own VPS?  I understand nothings truly secure,
>   I have a firewall set up, I monitor traffic and the like.  Just
> general thoughts you might want to share.
>
>
> Warmest regards,
>
>
>
> J. R. Johnstone
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Adam Thompson <arthompson1990 at gmail.com
> <mailto:arthompson1990 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:20:51PM +0200, chals wrote:
>     > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Fernan Bolando <ve4feb at gmx.ca
>     <mailto:ve4feb at gmx.ca>> wrote:
>     > > Hi all
>     > >
>     > > which gopher host are you guys using? I been looking at a few, but I am
>     > > not sure how to compare them.
>     > >
>     >
>     > Some of us are using sdf's free gopher servers to host our sites (even
>     > if we have our own private servers at home).
>     >
>     > If you happen to be in Europe, you can take a look at sdf-eu's server.
>
>     Agreed.  I personally use both sdfeu.org <http://sdfeu.org> and my
>     own gopher server which is running pygopherd on a raspbery pi.
>     Super simple to set up and the pi can handle the load with ease.
>