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Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by bogantech »

kyrra wrote: post #10
mritzmann wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most linodes have fixed IPs I would expect the opposite. Doesn't DHCP make more sense, for example, if the user creates a snapshot and restores it with a new IP? I don't use Lenode, so I can't judge, but I would expect DHCP to be default.

Default created Debian based linodes use a static IP. How they assign you the IP is they have an initial network boot script that injects that static IP into your config. I learned this because I wanted to test image recovery of deleted linode. When I restored it, I got a different IP address from linode (the static IP assigned to me), and I couldn't connect to it. Using the web console I found the IP address was har…

Maybe this changed recently but I created a few Debian instances this year, both were configured with DHCP by default

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by boplicity »

lukeqsee wrote: post #29

I think "Outage" as stated is a bit over-the-top. We run significant operations in most of these DCs, and we have seen zero impact. YMMV of course, but I think it's a big disingenuous to say this is a full outage.

It's a full outage for me -- wasting quite a lot of time. It's been 7 hours so far. Hopefully it won't drag on longer.

Who knows how many people it's affecting?

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by squidbeak »

boplicity wrote: post #32
lukeqsee wrote: post #29

I think "Outage" as stated is a bit over-the-top. We run significant operations in most of these DCs, and we have seen zero impact. YMMV of course, but I think it's a big disingenuous to say this is a full outage.

It's a full outage for me -- wasting quite a lot of time. It's been 7 hours so far. Hopefully it won't drag on longer. Who knows how many people it's affecting?

For us, too.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by prng2021 »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #28
eatonphil wrote: post #2

They were just bought by Akamai so unfortunately things like this are bound to happen if they are trying to integrate with Akamai the way they'd need to successfully keep growing. I'm not talking just software integration but process and people integration as well. We'll see I guess!

The Akamai acquisition has had me kind of stressed to be honest. Here in Oceania there aren't a whole lot of established "cloud" hosts to pick from that host locally. Linode is fantastic and I have loved them for 10+ years. Digital Ocean doesn't host here, nearest is Singapore. Vultr does but I have had poor experiences with them. The other options are AWS and Google which are potentially unbounded expenses which is…

Just curious, what caused the poor experience with Vultr?

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by esskay »

ubermonkey wrote: post #23
eatonphil wrote: post #2

They were just bought by Akamai so unfortunately things like this are bound to happen if they are trying to integrate with Akamai the way they'd need to successfully keep growing. I'm not talking just software integration but process and people integration as well. We'll see I guess!

I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Out of curiosity what is a new competitor going to offer that the existing well established ones like DigitaoOcean, Vultr, etc arent?

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by rossdavidh »

In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging...

On the other hand, it's only hitting my personal website, and the customer I have on Linode seems unaffected, so that's nice at least.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by chasd00 »

boplicity wrote: post #34

FYI: Linode says that most people can fix this by enabling "Network Helper." You'll then likely need to reboot your server. It worked for me! https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...

Thank you! this worked for me too. I was totally down, went in and enabled Auto Configure Networking per your link, and then rebooted.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 »

boplicity wrote: post #34

FYI: Linode says that most people can fix this by enabling "Network Helper." You'll then likely need to reboot your server. It worked for me! https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...

Most of my Linodes are still accessible, but this has worked for the two that went down so far.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Post by Ologn »

boplicity wrote: post #34

FYI: Linode says that most people can fix this by enabling "Network Helper." You'll then likely need to reboot your server. It worked for me! https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...

My Newark node was down for over six hours, this is how I fixed it. Uptime on the VPS had been over a year before this (don't remember why it was rebooted a year ago). Like others here said, I did not greet the news of Akamai buying them with joy, and things like this starting seem to bare my initial impressions out.
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