Hi,
At this point (9.15am) I'm unable to access my host on faustino or the
main bitfolk website (hence using this list to try contact Andy)
Websites are giving" Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown
error" (inc bitfolk.com) and pings to both my main URLs are timing
out.
Jennifer
Hi,
It seems that at approximately 0359Z today, the host dunkel was
power cycled. There is no evidence of a crash, and the reboot was
immediate. This was not scheduled work.
VPSes did not start up again automatically because they've been set
not to (in the middle of work or problems, having them all start
automatically tends to cause more difficulty). They were still
available to be started via xen shell console.
Unfortunately the mobile phone alerting mechanism didn't work, so I
was not aware of this, and only became aware when I checked in at
about 11am UK time. I have now started all VPSes on dunkel that
were not already running.
I'm now investigating what has happened here, particularly if there
was anyone working in the rack at the time of the power cycle.
In the event that your service is down and you don't know why or how
to get it started again, there are contact details including a phone
number at:
http://bitfolk.com/contact.html
The power cycle of dunkel itself was completely unexpected but I can
only apologise sincerely for my lack of awareness of this.
Regards,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
BitFolk's colo provider needs to perform some maintenance on their
switches this Saturday 3rd October.
There will be a one hour window for the work, starting at 0200Z.
During this time every switch will require a reboot, so you can
expect a network outage of less than 5 minutes for the local switch
reboot, plus several outages of less than 5 seconds each whilst
spanning tree adjusts for other switches rebooting.
You can expect the longer (minutes) outage to affect hosts in this
order:
1) corona / kwak
2) curacao / faustino / kahlua / obstler
3) dunkel
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
We do not generally expect postal mail, but for your information
BitFolk's registered address is changing to:
392a Bedfont Lane
Feltham
Greater London
TW14 9SA
from Monday 28th September 2009.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
* MurkyGoth sends an email to Channel 5 suggesting a reality TV show with GWB, Ging and Robert
<spb> Three Men in a Failboat
Hi,
If you know any group or good cause that could make use of the
following, they can have it for free:
- 1U rackmount server formerly known as "islay.bitfolk.com"
- 1x 3.6GHz "Irwindale" Xeon CPU (basically new enough to do 64bit,
but old enough to be single core and not have hardware virt
features)
- 2x 512MiB, 2x 1GiB DDR2 ECC RAM
- 2x 300GB Seagate SATA disks (which I will DBAN)
More details at:
http://bitfolk.com/lshw/islay.html
If you know a good cause that wants it then please get them to
contact me directly (andy(a)bitfolk.com / grifferz(a)identi.ca /
grifferz@twitter) saying what their cause is.
Failing that after a couple of weeks I'll give it to anyone who'll
collect it. Failing that I'll put it on Freecycle/Freegle.
Available from w/c 28th September 2009. Will be located in Feltham
TW14 and you collect, unless I really like you and you're in central
London.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
"The electric guitar - like making love - is much improved by a little
feedback, completely ruined by too much." -- The League Against Tedium
Hello,
Spam to my e-mail address has recently exceeded my tollerance level and
I am now looking in to implementing spam checking, I am however having
some trouble configuring exim4 to use the BitFolk shared SpamAssassin
service.
Currently I have done the following in attempting to configure my mail
server to use SpamAssassin, per the documentation at [1]:
- Replace exim4-daemon-light with exim4-daemon-heavy
- Add "spamd_address = 212.13.194.5 783" to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
- `update-exim4.conf -v` (this indicates /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
is used).
- `/etc/init.d/exim4 restart`
I then send a test message via a foreign mailserver I have access to,
however no spam checks are made. I checked /var/log/exim4/maillog and
it does not show any references to attempting to contact a spamd
server.
Does anyone have any pointers regarding how I can troubleshoot this, or
anything I am doing wrong?
Thank you,
[1] http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.68/doc/html/spec_html/ch41.html#SECTscanspa…
--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/
Hello,
BitFolk is proud to be one of the sponsors of OggCamp on October
25th 2009 in Wolverhampton, UK:
http://oggcamp.org/
If you're planning to attend OggCamp and/or LugRadio Live the day
before:
http://lugradio.org/live/2009/
then do let me know so I can say hello. :)
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
>> I have just recently purchased a Feathercraft Big Kahuna kayak
> does it have a heater?
Of course not. Everyone knows you can't have your kayak and heat it.
-- James Fidell
Hello,
BitFolk's Terms and Conditions have been altered in order to clarify
when a payment schedule may be changed.
The current T's and C's are here: http://bitfolk.com/policy/terms.html
The additions are:
# The Customer may request for their payment schedule to be
lengthened (from Monthly to Quarterly/Yearly, or from
Quarterly to Yearly) at any time before the next due date
by giving written notice by email to BitFolk's support
address. This shall take effect from the next due date.
# The Customer may request for their payment schedule to be
shortened (Yearly to Quarterly/Monthly or Quarterly to
Monthly). Such requests must be made at least 30 days
before the next due date by giving written notice by email
to BitFolk's support address.
The purpose of this is to remove the administrative burden of
changing people's payment schedules for bills that have already
fallen due.
These changes take effect immediately.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
There's a local->root privilege escalation exploit in almost all
versions of the Linux kernel:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0174.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516949https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/linux/+bug/413656
i.e. on affected kernels a local unprivileged user can become root.
Therefore I suggest that you check your distributions for the
relevant security update or else investigate the workarounds. I
have seen an updated kernel package hit Debian lenny.
If you are still on an old VPS setup where you don't have control
over your kernel then please contact support(a)bitfolk.com to get that
sorted out.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
"Xandros's low-level support for the Eee mostly seemed to consist of a pile of
shell scripts made of cheese and failure." -- Matthew Garrett
