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Frankfurt ?
If Virtfusion - yes. We will implement PowerDNS automation for rDNS in Virtfusion.
My VPS has SolusVM
What about UK?
Would non-Virtfusion (SolusVM) mean non-automated or not possible at all?
Manual setting could do it even now, maybe they are afraid it will bring too much work
Well, I believe some of the ip6.arpa zones are not even delegated to their nameservers yet.
EU deals when
If they didn't have delegation, they couldn't automate, and anyway the support doesn't make any difference in zones, it says no to everyone
So first they need to get the zone delegations set up, then they can automate it (or manually process it). But without the delegations they can't do either.
Few feedbacks on the new Virtfusion control panel:
1. DHCP (IPv4) is not supported
2. IPv6 RA contains prefix that's not assigned to the VPS (had to disable IPv6 during manual OS installation because of this)
3. Only web VNC is supported unlike SolusVM where you can use 3rd party vnc client
4. Virtfusion supports UEFI but users can't enable on their own
5. Update outdated iso to SystemRescue 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Debian LiveCD iso would be better than server installer only iso because of ZFS support issue
6. Loading speed of custom iso is extremely slow at about 2MB/s. Is it normal for Virtfusion?
i have issue with DHCP too, which requires me to manually configure IPv4 during debian installation. and for unknown reason on AZ storage this did not work so i had to do an offline only debian 12 cdrom installation, then reboot and do static IP config via VNC.
i have no issues with XFS since it gives much more available disk space for use.
however the debian 12 template gives 4GB swap by default which is why i had to manual install in the first place.
other than that, absolutely amazing
One of the advantages of using EXT4 is that it is possible resize (without having to reinstall manually) and you get the freedom to repartition and use LVM and/or XFS for the other partition(s).
I hope a EXT4 based Debian 12 template can also be made available.
On Solusvm their debian 12 template is broken even if they resolve apt update & upgrade problem.
You end up seeing problems when you set up ufw, ufw is not working well because of something wrong with iptables.
For peace of mind, I just manually install.
Disable IPv6 during installing process. IPv6 address generated from unusable prefix of RA has a higher priority than your manually configured IPv4.
XFS is fine but if you want to shrink partition it will cause problems
ZFS is not officially supported in linux kernels due to license issue. You have to install from a LiveCD
ref:
https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS
@foitin how do i do that? via VF? on debian 12 installation I can only configure IPv4.
Add
ipv6.ipv6_disable=1in the Debian installer menu (press tab and add it as an argument)or some other similar arg, can't remember exactly.
You mean disable IPv6? I use livecd installer. It's not the same as netinstall.
I think there's a manual config/DHCP process in netinstall. Don't choose auto config try manual configure IPv4.
yes. i use netboot to boot debian 12. did not see any other way apart from manually configuring IPv4.
yes i can do net install on solusvm easily since i recall its automatic network configuration
I thought only RHEL uses XFS as default file system
I'm not sure about any other distributions but both Debian and *buntu (I think) use EXT4 as the default. I don't know why VF ships Debian templates with XFS and I had ranted about it somewhere.
I also dislike the VF way of allocation for IPv6 via the panel - you can't pick a specific address (and mostly providers will not support rDNS without panel UI integration for IPv6). To me, it seems really pointless to have a /64 and not be able to pick (random) something within (and yes, I'm well aware that I can do whatever within the OS without any panel implications but then rDNS...). And if you get a /56, it is even more pointless because you would want to use addresses from multiple /64s.
End of rant.
iptables is deprecated, use nftables
Ideally one wouldn't use any firewall.
It's so 90s
Congratulations @NDTN
1, 2. Are you installing from templates or custom isos?
3. Virtfusion is doing a great job here. VNC can be enabled from the control panel with the default option is disabled. This will enhance the security. We have a few customers on SolusVM claiming the VPS being hacked because they have the VNC open to 3rd party with weak password.
4. We will ask Virtfusion to enable that option for end users if needed, there is a feature called Elevate that we have asked them to enable for end users too: https://docs.virtfusion.com/guides/elevate/
5. Could you please give more details, are the SystemRescue 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 LT isos not working?
6. It depends on the source iso location, you might need to find the closest location to the VPS's location in this case.
I tried both custom iso and templates. DHCP is not supported either way. Other users also mentioned this issue above.
Can you disable 3rd party vnc by default but leave an option to users who would like to take the risk? At the end of the day, weak password of vnc is just like weak password of ssh, both are security risk.
They (new version iso) are working well. Currently pre downloaded iso are outdated and user downloaded custom iso seems to load slower. Same issue as below?
I copy the iso to ram first before installing custom iso. That's how I found out the copy speed was extremely slow.
Got the 6666 plan, seems really amazing!
I did get vnc login info from dumping the webpage.
I once setup my JP VPS using Debian Japan mirror and found that the ISO was loaded very slow.
It is a good practice to disable ssh access with password and allow it only with key
1 & 3 are supported options, but it’s up to the provider if they enable them.
4 will be available in v5.3 (current version is 5.2).