Hi,
Earlier this evening a couple of customers on kwak.bitfolk.com
shut down their VPSes but were unable to start them again.
It appears we've hit some sort of bug here and customers aren't able
to start new virtual machines on this host. Therefore I'm going to
have to reboot the host now as a matter of urgency, i.e. in the next
few minutes.
The host has been up for 680 days now and this is the first real
problem encountered but I'll also take the opportunity to apply some
upgrades at the same time.
All customers on kwak are going to experience a clean shut down and
a boot up again a few minutes later.
Please accept my apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi Guys,
I have been doing a bit of reading on ipv6 and would like to set up my
own little v6 network at home, my ISP do not yet support it..but
Bitfolk do and I was wondering if I could use it to power my home
network?.. So, as far as I am aware we have a /64 block assigned to us
(which I think is the lowest you are supposed to assign in the v6
world?) which is...well, a lot of addresses.
I have tried to find some information on it but all I have found is
instructions on buying a tunnel broker, which I don't think I need
since I have the server. Can anyone point me in the right direction in
terms of setting up a tunnel that will work for both Windows and Linux
and give each computer that connects it's own v6 address?
Thank You,
Daniel
It was a machine at home rather than a VPS, but has this bug -
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1771999> - caught anyone here?
The plymouth script of update-initramfs fails because pango is in a
different directory to the one it expects:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
Warning: No support for locale: en_GB
cp: cannot stat
'/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/module-files.d/libpango1.0-0.modules': No such
file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so': No
such file or directory
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic (--configure):
I'm somewhat surprised that a) the relevant bug was marked as fixed in
Ubuntu's launchpad three months ago, but it's still affecting people
(me) now, and b) leaving you with a system that won't boot into the
kernel with 11.04 is apparently considered 'low' impact.
A cure is to link where it is and where it's expected to be:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango /usr/lib/pango
(the former is /usr/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu/pango for 64 bit systems)
and try again.
Ian
Hi Guys,
I've recently come into possession of a relatively small hosting
company and I'm trying to move the ~15 or so domains to Bitfolk, the
set up they have now is as follows:
-1 server with 5 IP addresses
-A main domain name registered with GoDaddy, with an NS1 host and NS1
A record pointing to one of the IP addresses, and an NS2 host and A
record pointing to another IP address
All the domains they host are then pointed to ns1 and ns2 on the main
domain via nameservers.
I think I need to just move the main domain, but will I need two IP
addresses for this or can ns1 and ns2 point to the same IP?
Daniel
Hello,
World IPv6 Day[1] is nearly over in the UK. Have you done anything with
IPv6 on your VPSes today? Did you already have IPv6 set up and
serving production traffic?
I'd be interested to know.
Cheers,
Andy
[1] http://www.worldipv6day.org/
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Hi,
I really didn't want to have to do this ever again, but I've had to
start temporarily turning away orders today. I'm hoping this is only
going to last a week or so until I've finished getting the two
available servers soak tested.
I expected growth to cease or go down but it's been a relatively
strong two weeks. Ordinarily that would be great, but if we do take
on more customers it's going to negatively impact disk IO
performance and fewer existing customers will get their RAM
upgraded.
As I say hopefully this won't last more than a week or so.
Cheers,
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:50:36PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> World IPv6 Day[1] is nearly over in the UK. Have you done anything with
> IPv6 on your VPSes today? Did you already have IPv6 set up and
> serving production traffic?
I had to reboot my VPS as the networking stopped working sometime since 6pm yesterday.
Logging into the console: the box was still up ... restarting the networking via /etc/init.d/networking did not fix the issue
Rebooting it did!
Thanks,
Simon
I've recently had a couple of people report that they can't reach
my website without very long (5 minutes) delays between the request
and the data arriving. On inspection, this turns out to be because
they're using IPv6, and things are going missing somewhere.
My v6 configuration:
hrm@frost:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3e:14:ae:f9
inet addr:212.13.194.111 Bcast:212.13.194.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2001:ba8:1f1:f1d9:216:3eff:fe14:aef9/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::216:3eff:fe14:aef9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1821029 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1938563 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:271575802 (258.9 MiB) TX bytes:999222239 (952.9 MiB)
Interrupt:8
hrm@frost:~$ sudo route -6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2001:ba8:1f1:f1d9::/64 :: UAe 256 0 2567 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff UGDAe 1024 0 774 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 3376 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 58520 lo
2001:ba8:1f1:f1d9:216:3eff:fe14:aef9/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::216:3eff:fe14:aef9/128 :: Un 0 1 624 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 3376 lo
From the looks of this, it's routing stuff to the internet via
something related to my link local address, which seems wrong to
me. However, I'm no IPv6 expert... Am I reading it right?
I'm using autoconfiguration (and would prefer to continue doing so,
if possible). Is this some misconfiguration on my end that I should be
fixing, or should I be raising a support ticket?
Hugo.
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Seeing as there's a few people on the list who know/like nagios I
thought I'd ask here -- can anyone recommend any plugins for nagios
reporting? I've been asked to present availability figures for
different services and I'd like to have them either:
- automatically emailed
- created as hardcoded links, eg /availability_report_last_7_days_exchange, etc
I've looked at nagios exchange, I can see some tools that do things
like create pdfs, but need the whole of webkit installed (would
ideally like to run it on the server). Not looking for anything too
fancy, just some way of showing business users availability without
getting them to click through the site.
Any suggestions?
thanks,
Casper.
