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Intermittent network issues since ~09:40Z today

by Andy Smith

Hi, For around the last hour there have been intermittent periods of high packet loss. I'm working with our transit provider on this at the moment and will give you more information when I have it. Apologies for the disruption. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 7 months

Squeeze - cannot access the hardware clock by any known method

by Keith Williams

Have just installed Squeeze on a vps (twice! had problems first time round) Everything looks good and is ready for me to start installing the web sites etc, but I can't get ntpd running as I get the message in the subject. I have tried running hwclock --debug, but get the same response. Any suggestions on what I should try next please? It was an easy job - following Andy's wiki article and youtube vdo, except for this one issue -- Keith Williams Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. - Calvin Trillin He's doing it again! www.justgiving.com/France-The-Wrong-Way Tailor Made English www.tmenglish.org

12 years, 7 months

A gentle reminder again about protecting against SSH dictionary attacks

by Andy Smith

Hello, It's been a while since I last posted a reminder about protecting against SSH dictionary attacks. http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20100314.085112.f5be7da9.en.html The problem of course has not gone away and since then there have been many more compromises that could have been easily avoided. So, please, if you are running sshd on port 22 and allowing password authentication, please consider taking some steps to protect yourself. It can very easily happen to you, and aside from the damage it can cause to other hosts on the Internet it risks significant downtime for your own services. I wrote up some more info from previous discussions: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Protecting_against_SSH_dictionary_attacks If you have further input please do feel free to add to the above wiki article. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 7 months

PHP-CGI exploit probes seen - please make sure your VPS is secured against this

by Andy Smith

Hi, As you may be aware a major security problem was recently found in PHP when run in CGI mode. A customer has recently had their VPS compromised and has discovered probes for this vulnerability as described here: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/05/php-cgi-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild.… So, if you are running PHP in CGI mode you absolutely must secure it against this. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 7 months

ntp0.sfo.bitfolk.com [209.237.247.192] has been decommissioned

by Andy Smith

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 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 8 months

Re: [bitfolk] Domain registrar

by Deanna Earley

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? -- Deanna Earley ----- Reply message ----- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail.Please excuse my brevity.

12 years, 8 months

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) release today

by Andy Smith

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 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 8 months

New rescue environment

by Andy Smith

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 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 8 months

Alerts today for a.authns.bitfolk.com

by Andy Smith

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 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 8 months

Re: [bitfolk] Nagios warning

by Deanna Earley

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. -- Deanna Earley ----- Reply message ----- 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 -- Keith Williams "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

12 years, 8 months

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