good afternoon, it seems something terrible has happened to my VPS.  I cannot connect via vnc or serial console at all. i have a feeling the support guy I've been talking with is extremely busy at the moment so I was wondering if someone else could take a glance at it?
hi
luceroz: you still there?
luceroz: read: http://support.arpnetworks.com/kb/vps/out-of-band-management
luceroz: see "Some things to note"
luceroz: bullet point #2
oh well if garry is here, NVM!
sorry I'm still here, had a meeting
hmmm.. I am fairly sure I don't still have a vnc connection open, and I've given it a hard shutdown several times.  Also the connections the vps served have gone silent, so I'm pretty sure the machine is off.  but booting the vps doesn't allow me to connect at all.  vnc doesn't hang -- it says connection refused.
you gotta wait a few seconds
alright I'll try again with a good long count just to be sure.
well a longer pause didn't help, either using vnc or the management console.  anything else I can try?
does it give connection refused or what?
yes Connection Refused (10061) is the message (RealVNC)
did the same connection parameters work before? (hostname & port/display#)?
 yes, but I've got some news.  innexplicably (Ihaven't even 'booted' it yet -- last button I pressed was hard shutdown) it works now.  that's almost a day of god only knows.  wierd.
sorry for the noise -- though I'm telling you something wierd definately happened...
alrighty then
what OS do you have on the VPS?
plan 9
whoa
i got a connection refused on vnc, then suddenly decided to check the management console and it said 'up' ...
does it actually work?
everything is running great
mind you it was not an easy task (ask Garry)
wow i'm jealous
got it serving http last night: navpointalpha.net
nice
luceroz: just sent replied to your support ticket btw, vps is back up
something about that floppy probably caused it not to boot
dude, can i have a login? ;)  I've never been inside a plan9 box.  not even sure i'd know how to look around...
now i'm d/l an .iso ;)
what _runs_ on it?  like, what is serving http?  i don't suppose there is an apache port ;)
i had no idea plan 9 was even still an active project
yeah, it is
luceroz: that is cool
it runs httpd, which is not apache.
online man pages have all the info -- search for httpd, link in one sec...
up_the_irons: would you consider adding capability for users to submit floppy images to boot their VPS?
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/sys/man/
up_the_irons I can give you a login later tonight.  you'll need drawterm here: http://swtch.com
luceroz: when you click the plan 9 graphic to go to the bell labs site, my chrome URL bar does not change (still shows your url)
yeah that's because that domain is forwarded with masking.  I did that because I didn't have time to figure out this dns nonsense.  need to fix that...  but I hate dns so much...
alright thanks again everyone for help, I'll be on later...
I DO have a day job to tend to...
ix33: probably not; there do exist OS' that can make the host machine unstable and crash.  the most i could do is "pick from a pre-approved list of images"
up_the_irons: interesting, thanks for the explanation
np
pretty cool
you've got a guy with plan 9
lol
:)
hi all
is there any none issue with the ipv6 address
mine rdns fine some time ago now i try and they dont
nvm :p