> From: Martin Meredith <mez(a)ubuntu.com>
> Sky broadband DO actively block VoIP. I bought this up with them and
> they faffed around the issue until I went away.
>
I am visiting the UK at the moment and am a guest at house with Sky
broadband and have had no problems at all with Skype - well apart from
all the usual ones :) If Sky do actively block Skype they don't seem
to be very successful.
Steve
Hi All,
I ran a port scan on my own server out of curiosity and noticed
something quite out of place...
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
1720/tcp filtered H.323/Q.931
22,53 and 80 are the ones which should be open, so what on earth is
1720? I have tried to locate the process behind it..."lsof -Pni :1720"
brings nothing back and "netstat -tulpn" is also not bringing anything
up, there is also nothing in iptables (I haven't got round to setting
it up yet). Is it something in the Bitfolk network? Just want to know
what it is really..
Daniel
Hello,
We had a support ticket earlier where a customer with 480MiB RAM is
only seeing 464MiB of it as reported by "free -m".
Now, I suspect this is not a new thing, and has only been noticed by
them because the ongoing RAM upgrades made them take an interest in
how much RAM they actually have.
I've had a look at many of my own (Debian) VMs and they all see
exactly as much RAM as they have been assigned.
I've mentioned this on IRC and a few other people also see slightly
less RAM than they have been assigned. Most so far appear to be
using Ubuntu, though there are some with Debian who are missing a
few MiB of RAM too.
It's not a big deal and I'm not asking you to let me know if you do
or don't see it too (there's currently nothing I can do about it). I
was just wondering if anyone knows where it goes? Perhaps some
kernel feature that eats up to 20MiB RAM, which I don't have
enabled?
My own kernels are 32bit PAE, so I don't think it's a PAE thing.
Cheers,
Andy
I guess it would help if I send the email to the entire list not just
one person :P
Original message:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:40 +0200, Ole-Morten Duesund wrote:
> *snip*
> > My debian (sqeeze) says :
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux for 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 22:14:55 UTC 2011 i686
> > GNU/Linux
> *snip*
>
> On my CentOS VM (a 2.6.18 kernel), free -m shows the correct amount of
> RAM. On the other hand, my desktop running Fedora 15 (2.6.38) shows that
> I'm missing 40MB:
>
> [moggers@delta6thc ~]$ free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2008 1299 709 0 84 594
> -/+ buffers/cache: 621 1387
> Swap: 3839 0 3839
>
> I'm just wondering if we've always had this "lost" RAM, but only recent
> kernels show it.
>
> M
>
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Since pretty much everybody with a VPS which runs Lenny has asked about
the upgrade to Squeeze, I have added my own upgrade notes to the Bitfolk
wiki:
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I'm not sure how many people are left still to perform the upgrade, but
those of you who have already done so, please give it the once over and
add your own notes or clarify any details you feel I may have missed.
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On 15 June 2011 15:03, Michael Stevens <mstevens(a)etla.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:55:50PM +0000, Isabell Long wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
>> > Feature request/idea/whatever:
>>
>> You can submit a feature request at https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine,
>> for future reference. But thanks all the same - here on the mailing list
>> may well generate more discussion. :-)
>
> Customer documentation at
> http://www.bitfolk.com/customer_information.html informs me:
>
> "If you have any feature requests we'd love to hear about them, either
> directly to support or discussed on the users mailing list."
>
> I vaguely remembered redmine existed from a previous mention, but a
> quick hunt didn't find it, and *did* find encouragement to post here.
>
> So here we are!
I wasn't complaining, but simply informing. :-)
Isabell.
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
> Feature request/idea/whatever:
You can submit a feature request at https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine,
for future reference. But thanks all the same - here on the mailing list
may well generate more discussion. :-)
> It'd be nice if we could see the progress of our tickets online. Since
> it like it's RT, I guess I'm suggesting we should have access to the RT
> web UI?
In my experience[1], tickets are dealt with promptly and communication
is strong, possibly negating the need for a "ticket tracking" system. I
can, however, see a benefit to tracking your support ticket: for
reorganisation of VPSes, or progress of orders, for example.
[1] To avoid problems, I should note here that my response is based on tickets I
have submitted, not ones I have responded to in my role as support
assistant.
Regards,
Isabell.
I've updated the debian OS on my VM from Lenny to Squeeze, unfortunately
I've run into an issue with grub:
# update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/xvda1.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/xvda1. Check your
device.map.
# cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/xvda
# ls -l /dev/xvda*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 202, 0 Jun 11 19:02 /dev/xvda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 202, 1 Jun 11 19:02 /dev/xvda1
My O/S is basically upgraded; I started by updating the kernel and libc
and bits, and was able to reboot into that. So, hopefully, my VM would
still reboot at this point. But, for some reason, once I had done the
full dist-upgrade the grub-update stopped working.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Is there something else I should be
checking? I went through the previous list mail on the squeeze update
and I don't see anything that was missed.
Thanks
Alex.
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Hi,
Earlier this evening a couple of customers on kwak.bitfolk.com
shut down their VPSes but were unable to start them again.
It appears we've hit some sort of bug here and customers aren't able
to start new virtual machines on this host. Therefore I'm going to
have to reboot the host now as a matter of urgency, i.e. in the next
few minutes.
The host has been up for 680 days now and this is the first real
problem encountered but I'll also take the opportunity to apply some
upgrades at the same time.
All customers on kwak are going to experience a clean shut down and
a boot up again a few minutes later.
Please accept my apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi Guys,
I have been doing a bit of reading on ipv6 and would like to set up my
own little v6 network at home, my ISP do not yet support it..but
Bitfolk do and I was wondering if I could use it to power my home
network?.. So, as far as I am aware we have a /64 block assigned to us
(which I think is the lowest you are supposed to assign in the v6
world?) which is...well, a lot of addresses.
I have tried to find some information on it but all I have found is
instructions on buying a tunnel broker, which I don't think I need
since I have the server. Can anyone point me in the right direction in
terms of setting up a tunnel that will work for both Windows and Linux
and give each computer that connects it's own v6 address?
Thank You,
Daniel
