Dropped Connections 20060204... anyone else experiencing this?

[tdobes]

I've been experiencing intermittent connectivity problems today for the past 3 or 4 hours... is anyone else experiencing the same thing? The outages last approximately 30 seconds and result in all my connections being dropped. It's making me appreciate vim's ability to recover files on which I was working!

I'm on vm12. I thought it might be a good idea to check here before I go blaming unixshell... I haven't yet determined where the problem is located and it might be external to their network.

[gilesmorant]

With regards to vim recovering files when connections drop- install "screen".

It's a standard utility, which allows you to keep SSH sessions open. I normally have about 8 open on my servers.

Re connection dropping off: my VM2 server dropped off about 10 hours ago and I had to restart it from the Tektonic interface. Probably my fault though :-)

[tdobes]

[QUOTE=gilesmorant]With regards to vim recovering files when connections drop- install "screen".[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the advice... I've got screen installed, but I always seem to forget to use it. ;)

As for the dropped connections, I think it was an issue somewhere between me and Unixshell. Some other users on my VPS were also connected via. ssh and they didn't experience any problems.

[ttran]

Since 30 minutes ago my VPS on vm24 is invisible from outside. I can login ssh console but don't see the VPS console, ie the ssh server on the other side let me in, but that's all. Traceroute stops at 72.9.242.89

[tdobes]

[QUOTE=ttran]Since 30 minutes ago my VPS on vm24 is invisible from outside. I can login ssh console but don't see the VPS console, ie the ssh server on the other side let me in, but that's all. Traceroute stops at 72.9.242.89[/QUOTE]

That sounds like a different problem. The problem I was experiencing was a total loss of connectivity to the machine on which my VPS resides. (i.e. pinging the host machine failed) This was, apparently, a result of some sort of routing error somewhere in my ISP.

Your problem seems like the machine on which the VPS is hosted is responding, but somehow your VPS has locked up or otherwise gone out to lunch. Maybe you should try stopping then restarting your VPS through Teknic. If that doesn't work, file a trouble ticket and see if someone can help you out. Once you get the thing working again, it might be a good idea to look through the logs and see if you can figure out what caused the problem.