Hi everyone,
Please can you recommend a domain registrar that won't treat me like poo and that won't force me to use their name servers so I can host my own DNS? Reasonable pricing and someone that doesn't throw up needless obstacles to leaving would be a plus.
Thanks,
Paul.
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Hello,
ntp0.sfo.bitfolk.com [209.237.247.192] was removed from service
quite a while ago and yesterday was finally decommissioned. If you
you still have it in your NTP configuration (usually /etc/ntp.conf)
then you should remove it. It won't cause any real harm to leave it
there, it just won't do anything any more.
Recommended NTP servers can be found here:
http://bitfolk.com/customer_information.html#toc_3_NTP___London__UK
which is probably what you already have.
Andy
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I use Gradwell (no concept of IPv6 glue and slow) and Joker which seem to be technically good but their control panel is a right PITA!
As Gandi seem to be popular, I will give them a look. What's their control panel like?
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From: "Paul Stimpson" <paul(a)stimpsonfamily.co.uk>
To: <users(a)lists.bitfolk.com>
Subject: [bitfolk] Domain registrar
Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 15:32
Hi everyone,
Please can you recommend a domain registrar that won't treat me like poo and that won't force me to use their name servers so I can host my own DNS? Reasonable pricing and someone that doesn't throw up needless obstacles to leaving would be a plus.
Thanks,
Paul.
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Hi,
As you may be aware, Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) is due to be
released today.
We have not yet had chance to test an upgrade from 10.04 (Lucid
Lynx) to 12.04, so whilst 12.04 is an LTS release I must warn you
that we are not aware of any customer who is successfully running
it. Unless you feel like being a pioneer it may be best to wait a
little while before trying such an upgrade.
In the next few days I hope to be able to add 12.04 to the net
installer:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Self-serve_net_install
which would make it available for new installs and new
self-installs. If I run into a problem with it then it may take
longer, but I don't really expect it to be a problem (Debian testing
works fine, for example).
I'll send another announce email if and when there is more news
about 12.04's availability and use at BitFolk. Meanwhile if any
brave customers would like to try upgrades and document it on the
wiki that would be most welcome.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
The rescue environment has been given a bit of an upgrade and is now
documented:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Rescue
It's still launched the same way and works pretty much the same way,
the only real difference is that it's up-to-date and now based on
the debian-live project so will be much easier to keep up-to-date.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
A bunch of alerts for a.authns.bitfolk.com were sent out a few
minutes ago. These were sent in error and don't represent any actual
problem.
I'm in the process of reconfiguring some software on that system and
the monitoring momentarily couldn't connect, so sent out alerts to
that effect. No actual service has been disrupted.
Cheers,
Andy
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Thus sounds like the out of memory killer. You should find at least a few entries in the system log detailing what was killed and why.
Where this is logged on a Debian system, I don't know.
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From: "Keith Williams" <keithwilliamsnp(a)gmail.com>
To: <users(a)lists.bitfolk.com>
Subject: [bitfolk] Nagios warning
Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 10:42
Yesterday I was away from the computer and came back to see a series of Nagios alerts, related to DNS. It appears that the Bitfolk dns servers were unable to update a zone from my server. I was unable to login to my server, so went into Xen. It was unable to either shutdown or reboot. When I opened a console window, it was impossible to read as text was scrolling up continuously and rapidly. I had no alternative but to Destroy. A scary option, but within seconds it did the trick and all is running well now.
I have scanned the logs this morning trying to find out what had gone wrong. I realise it was something going haywire and consuming all the resources, but please could anyone give me pointers on how to determine what it was that was behaving so badly?
Keith
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Yesterday I was away from the computer and came back to see a series of
Nagios alerts, related to DNS. It appears that the Bitfolk dns servers were
unable to update a zone from my server. I was unable to login to my server,
so went into Xen. It was unable to either shutdown or reboot. When I opened
a console window, it was impossible to read as text was scrolling up
continuously and rapidly. I had no alternative but to Destroy. A scary
option, but within seconds it did the trick and all is running well now.
I have scanned the logs this morning trying to find out what had gone
wrong. I realise it was something going haywire and consuming all the
resources, but please could anyone give me pointers on how to determine
what it was that was behaving so badly?
Keith
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"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can
solve them." Isaac Asimov
He's doing it again! www.justgiving.com/France-The-Wrong-Way
Tailor Made English www.tmenglish.org
