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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Anyone been having difficulties using pear, curl, etc. to other domains
lately? I've started getting the following when trying to use PEAR:
# pear list-all
Connection to `pear.php.net:80' failed: Connection timed out
if I try to send a cURL request to the majority of domains I get the same
issue (though curl www.google.co.uk is fine)
Hi,
A few days ago we received a support ticket from a customer who had
upgraded to Debian unstable and found that their kernel no longer
booted.
Upon further investigation, starting with Debian jessie (testing),
Debian has switched to compressing their kernels with XZ as opposed
to GZIP.
The version of Xen hypervisor we are running does not currently
support XZ decompression of kernels, so if you tried to boot one you
would receive a message like:
Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\n')
and be returned to Xen Shell.
I have some ideas about workarounds for this, so if anyone else is
experiencing this issue could I ask that you please contact
support(a)bitfolk.com and we'll try some things out.
- How to tell what compression method your kernel uses
$ grep CONFIG_KERNEL_ /boot/config-*
/boot/config-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y
/boot/config-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:# CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
/boot/config-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem:# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-3-686-pae:CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y
/boot/config-3.2.0-3-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-3-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-3-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-3-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-4-686-pae:CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y
/boot/config-3.2.0-4-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-4-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-4-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ is not set
/boot/config-3.2.0-4-686-pae:# CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set
These are all GZIP. CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ would be the only one set if XZ
was used.
So far I am only aware of Debian jessie and beyond switching to XZ,
but there may be others I am not aware of.
Once I have worked out a suitable workaround I will document it but
most likely it can be sorted out on BitFolk's side so you won't
notice.
Cheers,
Andy
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I have just spent the last few days investigating tunneling ipv6 from my
vps to my wheezy box at home and so giving my home mini-network ipv6
access. On the way I have learnt a lot about routing etc. It is now working
nicely, but what has amazed me is how small the ipv6 take up seems to be.
Once I had established that I could ping6 fairly local addresses, I tried
pinging further afield and when some of those failed, I tried dig aaaa on
them and found that there were no aaaa records. We are talking big names
here - amazon.co.uk etc. Interestingly, my isp doesn't provide ipv6
connectivity to customers, but I can ping6 them!
Keith
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West Norfolk RSPCA www.westnorfolkrspca.org.uk
I am in Spain at the moment and am unable to log into my Bitfolk vm.
I could log in with no problem from England so can a friend in Florida
and it works from Brazil. The people I am staying with could log in
from an internet cafe so I think the problem is the ISP who is ya.com
part of Orange.
This is what happens (using a Mac)
zaphod$ ssh -vvv -p 2222 swalk(a)swalk.eu
OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to swalk.eu [85.119.82.47] port 2222.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/zaphod/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/zaphod/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/zaphod/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Can anyone advise me on what the problem is, why an ISP might do
whatever it does to stop the connection or suggest some sort of work
around.
Steve
PS I know I should be using SSH with authentication key instead of
password but I have been a bit lazy getting around to it.
Hi all
I'm looking at high availability webserver setups at the moment and
wondered if anyone was running a clustering filesystem across multiple
Bitfolk VPSes?
I've been doing some reading on GlusterFS and it would seem to do what I
need it to. I'm going to have a play with it on a couple of local VMs first
while I understand how to make it work in my setup, but just wondered if
anyone else is doing similar or has any words of wisdom?
Thanks
Alex
> Looks alright to me so I am surprised that you cannot connect. Does
> the "ssh -v 85.119.82.47" output look the same still?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
Yes:
$ ssh -v 85.119.82.47
OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 85.119.82.47 [85.119.82.47] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 85.119.82.47 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 85.119.82.47 port 22: Connection refused
and
$ ssh -v -p2222 85.119.82.47
OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 85.119.82.47 [85.119.82.47] port 2222.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/zaphod/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/zaphod/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/zaphod/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
This started some weeks ago when I gave a friend in Spain and account.
He never succeeded in logging from home via Windows and Putty and I
assumed that he was doing something wrong. When I arrived to stay I
had the same result on my Mac.
I was hoping to get something concrete to approach the ISP with. It is
hard enough to talk with any help line but dealing with such a
specialist question in Spanish will be challenging at best. I think
that it is clear it is not a problem with either my setup or Bitfolk
and it is best to drop the topic. If we find any successful solution I
will post it here just in case anyone might be interested.
Thanks for the help.
Steve
