Hi,
We are experiencing some problems with host "talisker" and I'm currently
looking into it.
We are likely going to have to do an emergency reboot in a monent.
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Thank you.
Fwiw I would prefer a status API and website over an email. If the API could list upcoming maintenance as well as current issues, it would be very useful to me.
Conrad
On 14 November 2022 14:31:27 GMT, Andy Smith via RT <support(a)rt.bitfolk.com> wrote:
>Hi Conrad,
>
>On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 02:21:31PM +0000, Conrad Wood via RT via support wrote:
>> On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 13:17 +0000, Conrad Wood via BitFolk Users wrote:
>> > I started to receive some errors on a bitfolk dns server.
>> > It seems to indicate the DNS Server no longer listens on port 53
>> > (well,
>> > or some firewall blocks it - I don't know).
>> > Any ideas?
>
>Sorry, I was doing a little bit of work on it and didn't think anyone
>would notice! It is back running again now and I don't expect to have
>to shut it down again. We will send a notification of maintenance in
>future.
>
>Cheers,
>Andy
>
>--
>https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
>
>
>
--
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
I started to receive some errors on a bitfolk dns server.
It seems to indicate the DNS Server no longer listens on port 53 (well,
or some firewall blocks it - I don't know).
Any ideas?
[14/11/2022 13:08:01.159] [192.168.59.1] [prober-server]: "FAILED :
Prober dns_resolve mail.conradwood.com: [STATUS] : [dns server
a.authns.bitfolk.co.uk ([2001:ba8:1f1:f085::53]:53),
target=mail.conradwood.com]: lookup mail.conradwood.com on
127.0.0.1:53: read udp [2001:ba8:1f1:f0bd::2]:59986-
>[2001:ba8:1f1:f085::53]:53: read: connection refused [/STATUS]"
Hi,
Since the first point release of Ubuntu 22.04 has now been and gone,
those of you with older Ubuntu installations will now be prompted with
suggestions to upgrade to it.
That should go fine, as long as you are running 64-bit (amd64) and in
PVH mode. If you aren't then it won't be able to boot, as the Ubuntu
kernel uses a compression method not known to our PV mode bootloader.
To switch to PVH mode you should do this from the Xen Shell:
xen shell> virtmode pvh
It will then take effect from the next boot. If it somehow doesn't work
for you, you can switch back:
xen shell> virtmode pv
(and then please let us know so we can investigate)
PVH mode has been the default for all new VMs here for two years now,
but many existing customers are still running in PV mode.
There's more information about PVH mode here, but really it is an
implementation detail that you don't need to pay any attention to:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/PVH
Those running 32-bit Ubuntu have no upgrade path at all since 18.04 was
the last Ubuntu release that supported 32-bit. Those wanting to upgrade
from 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04 are probably going to be best off asking for a
new VM to run for free for two weeks, and move their stuff into that:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migrating_to_a_new_VPS
Cheers,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
The recent question reminds me - since leaving for another VPS provider,
the various VPSes have had various difficulties with getting emails from
them accepted by the dominant Google / Microsoft / Yahoo services.
In one case, the content - requested activity alerts from a message board -
hasn't changed, and the volume is way *way* under anything suspiciously
spambot-y - a hundred emails a week, not per second - but Microsoft have
simply refused to accept email to users that have Hotmail / Outlook
accounts, despite the only significant change being the IP address it comes
from.
This is even after jumping through all of the hoops in the sometimes very
outdated Microsoft 'help' (sic) pages: I strongly suspect that they are
blocking the new provider's whole IP address space (or nearly so...)
Despite having various filters set up to say 'no, it's not spam, how many
times do I have to tell you', Gmail still keeps wanting to label fail2ban,
logwatch, and other system report emails as spam.
I look at
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-ye…
and go 'at least it isn't just me' and 'I hope someone takes the oligarchs
to someone with teeth', but before I lose all my hair..
.. can you still get emails delivered from Bitfolk VPSes to the three
reliably to inboxes?
Ian
Hello,
The BitFolk wiki¹ was seriously due for an upgrade given it was an
i386 VM running PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I thought the hard bit would be
the OS upgrade as the Mediawiki was only going from v1.30 to v1.38
but I was wrong. Making Mediawiki work again is proving to be the
hard part!
Anyway, the wiki content is still there but the extensions are
broken, so you can't log in (LDAP extension) - and so can't edit -
and there's no syntax highlighting.
Will hopefully get it fixed before the weekend.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
Xen Security Advisories 410 and 411 came out of embargo today, after
2 weeks:
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
I've prepared updates for these and have been running them on test
machines for nearly 2 weeks, but do not intend to force a reboot in
order to deploy them on production machines.
The reason for that is that the impact is denial of service but in
our configuration it would be:
a) only degraded performance, not overload to the point of
unavailability; and
b) noticed pretty quickly and offending VMs terminated
The bugs are only exploitable by multiple VMs on the same machine
acting together. In our setup the host machines have exclusive access
to some number of CPU cores so guests can never starve the host
machine of CPU.
The fixes are ready to be included at next boot.
Also disclosed today were XSA-409 which is only relevant to Arm
architecture, and XSA-413 which is for XAPI, which we don't use.
Thanks,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
Do any of you, particularly those of you reading your emails in
Outlook on Windows, see the pound symbol (£) in your billing emails
mangled to "£"?
I've been talking to one customer who reported this and I wonder how
widespread the issue is. I am unable to reproduce it but I don't
have easy access to Outlook on Windows and can't see what might be
wrong just by looking at the raw email.
Of course if any of you can see what might be wrong, please do tell
me. 😀
One person did already say to me on IRC:
+dne> looks ok to me, but why "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary" at
the top level?
and I don't know the answer to why I have that! I will consider
changing it if I can find more people who can help me work out if
changing it does make a difference.
This is specifically for the email from billing(a)bitfolk.con that
tells you when your renewal will be and has the PDF invoice attached.
Thanks,
Andy
--
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Gmail is bouncing emails sent by sendmail. The from address is
name@mydomain and I've set up an SPF DNS record for mydomain which looks
like
v=spf1 a a:aremiti36.vps.bitfolk.com ip6:2001:ba8:1f1:f09e::2 ~all
the domain and https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/spf/checker finds it OK
but i'm still getting emails bounced:
kit.wallace(a)gmail.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [2a00:1450:400c:c06::1a]:
550-5.7.26 This message does not pass authentication checks (SPF and
DKIM both
550-5.7.26 do not pass). SPF check for [aremiti36.vps.bitfolk.com] does
not
550-5.7.26 pass with ip: [2001:ba8:1f1:f09e::2].To best protect our
users from
550-5.7.26 spam, the message has been blocked. Please visit
name@mydomain is redirected to kit.wallace(a)gmail.com so I'm not sure gmail
is even looking at mydomain's DNS record anyway
Basically I don't know what I'm doing and in need help!
Chris
Dear All
My VPS is on Debian 11. I cannot get firewalld to work. For example when
I stop firewalld by
systemctl stop firewalld
I would expect that I no longer can ssh into my VPS but I still can.
Does anyone know how to tell the system to use firewalld?
Regards,
Sam
