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by Keith Williams

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

Bitcoin as payment method

by Andy Parkins

Hello, My annual renewal for my VPS is coming up. I was about to click pay and I thought I would ask this question first: how do you (bitfolk and other users) feel about Bitcoin as a payment method? http://www.weusecoins.com/ Wherever possible I'd like to use bitcoins for payment, as it's incredibly convenient. For me it's not a deal breaker; it's merely a query. (compared to paypal I guess it would make you a few extra percent of profit) Normally I don't ask suppliers, because bitcoin isn't big enough yet that I think I'll get a sensible answer from them; but Bitfolk has always struck me as being ahead of the technological curve. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andyparkins(a)gmail.com

12 years, 9 months

Enabling Monkeysphere

by Murray Crane

Hi, I've just this second "discovered" Monkeysphere, and I can see it's a great idea, so I'm trying to set it up as per their (Monkeysphere's) documentation for all the machines I regularly SSH to/from, but I'm pretty sure that: # monkeysphere-host publish-key Isn't sending my key(s) to the keyserver mentioned (pool.sks-keyservers.net), because using their web-based search tool I can't find any of the (now three) keys I've published. Anyone know where I might be going wrong, or suggestions on how to proceed? Kind regards Murray Crane

12 years, 9 months

Suggestions for email hosting company

by S P

Hello, I am looking for suggestions for an email-hosting company. Need POP3 access. I need something other than Google. I need something that is reliable ... paid is okay. Something that does not require me to login every n months or they delete the mbox. I currently have registered domains at fasthosts.co.uk and they host email for about GBP 16/year. But they use Exchange servers .... is that good? So if you have any company that your can recommend, I would appreciate it. Also, I have a few domains that I also need to transfer ... hopefully to the same company as the email-hoster. Thanks in advance, Sandy.

12 years, 9 months

.bitfolk-rsync-filter - what filter do I need

by Robert Gauld

I'm stuck on this, I'm trying not to backup what really isn't needed is some rails apps I'm doing. Basically Bitfolk does backups of (amongst other things) my /var directory (I already have a .bitfolk-rsync-filter to ensure that some stuff in /var isn't backed up). In side /var/www/rails-apps I have a rails app (with more to be added), since the git repositotires the code comes from are backed up elsewhere I don't want to backup each app's .git folder or any .git* files. I also don;t want to backup the log or tmp directories for each app. I have a /var/www/.bitfolk-rsync-filter file with the following contents: - .* - .*/ - rails-apps/*/tmp/ - rails-apps/*/log/ - rails-apps/**/.git* - rails-apps/*/.git/ I have also tried this contents: - .* - .*/ - /var/www/rails-apps/*/tmp/ - /var/www/rails-apps/*/log/ - /var/www/rails-apps/**/.git* - /var/www/rails-apps/*/.git/ However the following files (which I don't want backed up) are being backed up: /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/.git (directory) /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/.gitignore /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/vendor/plugins/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/vendor/assets/stylesheets/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/lib/tasks/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/lib/assets/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/integration/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/functional/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/unit/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/fixtures/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/.gitignore /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/app/models/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/app/mailers/.gitkeep What have I got wrong (so far neither the man page or Google have helped me)? -- Robert Gauld http://www.robertgauld.co.uk

12 years, 9 months

Secondary Reverse DNS

by Robert Gauld

I'm currently toying with the idea of asking Andy to delegate the reverse lookup for my IP addresses to my name server rather than bothering him when I want to change them. I've been Googling to see what the zone file I'd need to create for this would look like and could only find resources on creating a zone for for an entire class C network, what would the zone file look like? (please either answer or point me to a resource I couldn't find) -- Robert Gauld http://www.robertgauld.co.uk

12 years, 10 months

IP address at Nominet's nameservers is wrong

by Ian

I am having problems with this - despite updating them (again) today, it is still showing the old IP address for one of the nameservers: Here's the BIND record, with the domain name changed: $ttl 10800 example.co.uk. IN SOA sub.example.co.uk. example.gmail.com. ( 2012021001 7200 3600 604800 10800 ) example.co.uk. IN NS sub.example.co.uk. example.co.uk. IN NS top.example.co.uk. example.co.uk. IN A 85.119.83.xx sub.example.co.uk. IN A 85.119.83.xx top.example.co.uk. IN A 85.119.83.yy mail.example.co.uk. IN A 85.119.83.xx ns1.example.co.uk. IN A 85.119.83.xx ns2.example.co.uk. IN A 85.119.83.yy *.example.co.uk. IN CNAME sub example.co.uk. IN MX 10 mail.example.co.uk. But here is what Nominet's whois says: Relevant dates: Registered on: 21-Apr-2009 Renewal date: 21-Apr-2013 Last updated: 10-Feb-2012 Registration status: Registered until renewal date. Name servers: sub.example.co.uk 212.13.195.xx top.example.co.uk 85.119.83.yy WHOIS lookup made at 12:42:49 10-Feb-2012 Note old IP address for sub.example.co.uk, even though the A record is clear it's the new address. Any suggestions as to what's going on gratefully received... Ian

12 years, 10 months

idle curiosity? bank phishing scam, was Fw: Notice ID:01ZMCX

by Max B

Hi bitfolkers, I was emailed today by a phish bot (copy withheld by yahoo spamguard) which seeks bank information. The scam appears to redirect victims to a location in Stanford (see www.81solutions.com/server-location.html) whose host is located in Austria: 171.66.18.10 resolved by scotiaonline.scotiabank.compan.for-some.biz I suspect this is a VPS, in an organisation similar to bitfolk, with a virus. Which leads me to ask some questions of this list: 1) Do I have a duty in law to maintain a phishbot-virus-free VPS? 2) Can a mandamus order shut down an innocent VPS owner whose server hosts a phishbot virus? 3) Has a bitfolk VPS owner ever been targetted by phishbots? If so, what were the symptoms and what were the ramifications? Cheers! Max

12 years, 10 months

Reboot scheduled for host "bellini", 2012-02-20 2200Z; host "president", 2012-02-21 2200Z

by Andy Smith

Hi folks, Short version: Two of our servers appear to be subject to a now fixed kernel bug affecting IPv6, and require a reboot for kernel upgrade. Host bellini.bitfolk.com will be rebooted on Monday 20th February at 2200Z. Provided that does fix the problem, host president.bitfolk.com will be similarly rebooted the following day, Tuesday 21st February also at 2200Z. Longer version: While investigating some recent reports of poor IPv6 performance, it seems that both bellini.bitfolk.com and president.bitfolk.com are affected by a bug in the igb Intel gigabit Ethernet driver as described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630730 The symptoms are very poor IPv6 performance in the region of a maximum of 100kilobit/sec. On doing a tcpdump you will see packets of length greater than 1500 bytes, followed by an ICMP6 "packet too big" message coming from our server, and then a retransmit. These hosts have been up for 138 days (bellini) and 223 days (president), and unfortunately neither we nor any customers noticed any problems until recently. On casual inspection IPv6 works. It's only noticeable when trying to do a larger data transfer. Since the current impact is so low, I am not going to rush to reboot these hosts. I would rather give plenty of notice to those who need it. When it's time for the reboot we will shut down all VPSes on these servers cleanly, reboot the machine and then begin booting them up again. Downtime is expected to be in the region of 15 minutes. If you are in any doubt as to whether your VPS starts cleanly with all required services running, you should test this ahead of time. I am fairly confident that the problems observed are caused by that bug and therefore that a kernel upgrade will fix it, but unfortunately we do not have any other hardware that uses the igb driver. If doing the upgrade on bellini does not resolve the issue then we will have to consider our options. In the mean time, if your VPS is hosted on bellini or president then you may wish to set your VPS to prefer IPv4 DNS results ahead of IPv6 results: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/IPv6#Preferring_IPv4_over_IPv6 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, 10 months

Tor Obsfucation

by Daniel Case

Hey Guys, As you may have heard, over the last few weeks the Iranian government have come hard against all SSL/TLS encrypted traffic and stopped most of it getting through. I'm going to set this up on my server: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-February/023070.html I was just wondering if there is any reason it would be violating any Bitfolk policies and any best practise tips you can give me to minimize any impact. Thank you, Daniel

12 years, 10 months

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