BitFolk Announcements November 2011

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Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) available for self-install

by Andy Smith

Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:44:56PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > And no you can't yet use an official installer to put Oneiric Ocelot > (11.10) on a BitFolk VPS, but I hope to have that available this > weekend. With the usual warnings about not rushing into upgrades. Ubuntu 11.10 is now available for self-install: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer It hasn't been tested extensively, so do take care. Apologies for the delay on providing this, between the renumbering and some curiosities of the Oneiric installer w.r.t IPv6, progress was slower than I would have liked. Cheers, Andy -- "I'm /extremely/ miffed about today's events and in my quest to try to make you understand the level of my unhappiness, I'm likely to use an awful lot of what we would call /violent sexual imagery/ and I just wanted to check that neither of you would be terribly offended by that." -- Malcolm Tucker

13 years, 1 month

IMPORTANT: You need to renumber the IP address(es) of your BitFolk VPS

by Andy Smith

Dear customer, [ Apologies if you've received duplicate copies of this email; we felt it was of sufficient importance to send direct to the contacts for each account. ] If you've been following our mailing lists you'll know that the time has come where we need you to change the IP address(es) associated with your VPS. Basically: - For each IP address on your VPS you need to enable a new address, which has already been routed to you. - You then need to reconfigure your services to use only the new IP addresses. - Finally you need to disable the old IP addresses. Full information on what you need to do can be found here: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Renumbering_for_customers The next time you need to reboot your VPS you should take care to instead shut it down and boot it again from your Xen Shell, otherwise you will lose the routes to the new IP addresses that have been added. The old IP addresses will be disabled approximately *three months* from now, so if you don't make these changes before then YOU WILL EXPERIENCE A LOSS OF SERVICE. Therefore if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask, preferably on our users list: https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 1 month

entropy.lon.bitfolk.com renumbered; old IP address will stop responding on Sunday 30th October 2011

by Andy Smith

Hi, entropy.lon.bitfolk.com [212.13.194.102] has been renumbered to 85.119.80.215. If you're making use of our free entropy service[1] then you may be referring to this host by IP address in your configuration[2]. Use of the entropy service is not configured by default, so if you don't know what I'm talking about then you most likely don't have anything to change. The old IP address will continue to respond until Sunday 30th October 2011, at which point we will be taking it out of service. If you're currently referring to it by IP address then you should change to the host name now. A summary of all renumberings currently in progress can be found here: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Renumbering_out_of_212.13.194.0/23 If you have any questions, please reply to the list or to support(a)bitfolk.com. Cheers, Andy [1] https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Entropy [2] Usually /etc/default/ekeyd-egd-linux on Debian/Ubuntu -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "I am the permanent milk monitor of all hobbies!" -- Simon Quinlank

13 years, 1 month

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BitFolk Announcements November 2011