@bitfolk

No-nonsense VPS (virtual private server) company, based in London, UK. Linux/Xen-based virtual servers for the clueful.

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81 Posts, 18 Following, 91 Followers · No-nonsense VPS (virtual private server) company, based in London, UK. Linux/Xen-based virtual servers for the clueful. This account will mostly be used for...

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Currently investigating problems with host talisker
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Investigating one customer VM that still shows as down
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That one looks like unrelated customer config error
Deutsche Telekom are now default blocking email from ALL non-allowlisted IPs at the IP level. Which means that @BitFolk's mail server for the main domain, our mailing lists and our support system can't communicate with anyone a t-online address (amongst others).
Connection refused by t-online.de mail server from BitFolk's main outbound mail relay, showing an IP-level block.

ALT Connection refused by t-online.de mail server from BitFolk's main outbound mail relay, showing an IP-level block.

Connection refused by t-online.de mail server from BitFolk's mailing list manager, showing an IP-level block.

ALT Connection refused by t-online.de mail server from BitFolk's mailing list manager, showing an IP-level block.

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What do you think the Unrecoverable Error Rate / Bit Error Rate spec on HDDs means? How do you interpret it? mailman.bitfolk.com/mailman/…
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New Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) scan on port 3478/udp, reveals around 101k IPv4 and 2.9K IPv6 accessible services daily. These can be abused for reflection/amplification DDoS attacks (IPv4 amp factor around 4, IPv6 amp factor around 6). Most in US and Germany.
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We've migrated our mailing lists from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3. Things will look different, but you don't need to do anything. 😀 mailman.bitfolk.com/mailman/…
Trying to understand under what circumstances BLSCFG gets enabled for Grub in CentOS Stream 8… please get in touch if you have more info - want tyo avoid any more nasty surprises lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/mes…
Worrying numbers of customer VMs failed to boot this week because they're 32-bit PV mode and were upgraded to kernels that no longer support that. If you're still on 32-bit, read this! lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/mes…
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Your quick fix is to switch to PVH mode, but we've been saying since 2015 that you need to move to amd64. You need to switch to amd64 😀 We can offer you a free VM for two weeks to switch over: tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migra…
All of the maintenance work is now completed. Thanks for your patience! The security issues fixed this time will be out of embargo at 12:00Z today: xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
VPSes on host "talisker" are now being shut down in preparation for scheduled maintenance: lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/mes…
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All VPSes on "talisker" should now have booted. Now checking monitoring for any having problems…
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Everything that was marked up before is still showing as up, so that concludes the maintenance work for "talisker"
VPSes on host "snaps" are now being shut down in preparation for scheduled maintenance: lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/mes…
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All VPSes on "snaps" should now have booted. Now checking monitoring for any having problems…
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Everything that was marked up before is still showing as up, so that concludes the maintenance work for "snaps"
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