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Docker: failed to add the pair interfaces (operation not supported)
After installing Docker, I am getting an error when I try to run the Hello World example:
Error response from daemon: Cannot start container 4145d0fccd96b904e4ab4413735f1129b8765429bad5be71dc8d5f4c0760666d:
failed to create endpoint high_saha on…

piero-la-lune
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Why does my Let's Encrypt certificate contain references to Cloudflare?
I own a website that uses a Let's Encrypt certificate. It's not behind Cloudflare, it's hosted at OVH and I'm accepting direct traffic from it.
Now, I set up an apache2 webserver and used certbot to automatically generate a certificate. The problem…

lolc
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VPS: How can I update the available hard disk space after upgrade?
I made an upgrade of a VPS hosted on OVH, specifically from VPS CLOUD 1 to VPS CLOUD 2 that have 25gb more of previous solution (50gb total).
On this VPS is installed CentOS 7.2.1511
There is the result of df -HT
[root@srv ~]# df -HT
File system …

marsaldev
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Extend linux partition size without losing any data / techniques
I bought a 200G additional disk for my OVH cloud server because my initial disk was full.
Now, my additional disk is almost full (as you can see below). So I added 200 extra more G in it. As you can see, sdb's size is now 400G.
So, how can I add the…

Kingourou
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IPv6 Gateway outside network (OVH)
We a dedicated server at OVH, assigned 2001:41d0:a:72xx::/64
I have set the machines on a segment bridged to the wan, as per
IPv6 public routing of virtual machines from host
The gateway is 2001:41d0:a:72ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, outside the network
We're…

Lenne
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Configure DNS server on Debian 9
I need some help configuring a DNS server in Debian 9 (Stretch). I'm following this tutorial, but I think that there is something that I'm doing wrong...
In my case, we will suppose that I own a domain called example.com and my server has an IP that…
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Is it possible to convert RAID1 to RAID0 without system reinstalation?
I bought the E3-SSD-3-32 server from the SoYouStart offer. There is a 3x120 GB SSD drive. Unfortunately, after some time, there was a lack of disk space. Is there any way to convert RAID1 to RAID0? The operating system is Debian 9.
web1@ns510077:~$…

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How to investigate causes for a very slow telnet?
Having some connection problems with my website, i found out that my server has a bigger problem. I installed it, with ubuntu 14.04. It is a cloud machine bought from a specific isp (ovh) but entirely configured by me, os included: i have full…

Sasha Grievus
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How can I redirect domain A to domain B without hosting, using only DNS records?
I want to redirect domain A (without hosting space) to domain B (301), but when I try https://domainA.com or https://www.domainA.com it ends with ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. Is it even possible to use only DNS records?
I'm using OVH.com redirection…

Patryk Chowratowicz 'Zszywacz'
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systemd network ipv6 gateway is not set up
Cross posted on github
I don't understand why my systemd network config doesn't set up ipv6 gateway route, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX and YYYY:YYYY:YYYY:YYYY:: are always the same ip. My server is hosted by OVH:
[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
DHCP=false
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Stargateur
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IPv6 public routing of virtual machines from host
So I have a dedicated server from OVH. With that I got a /64 range of IPv6 addresses and 1 public IPv4 address. I purchased a second IPv4 address as a fallback.
The host is running the Xen hypervisor and I already set up the bridge
bridge name…

Francis Booth
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Change kernel of Centos OVH
I'm using a server of OVH with OS centos7. OVH has its own linux kernel:
3.14.32-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64
Now I try to configure another Centos7 kernel.
I installed the other kernel(s).
yum install kernel
ls /boot shows…

DenCowboy
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Unable to receive mail from the amazon network
I currently have several servers at OVH including one that acts as a personal mail server.
Postfix takes care of receiving the mails, but I have a problem for the reception coming from certain domains. After investigation I noticed that often the…

MarcEteint
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cloud-init can't set up ipv6
I've bought a Public Cloud VPS from OVH and trying to set up ipv6.
Also I've found a tutorial on how to set up ipv6 in their documentation. It works until I reboot the VPS.
In this tutorial they want me to update this file…

kironet
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Configuration of IPv6 in Ubuntu fails - OVH VPS
For some time I am struggling with configuration of IPv6 in my Ubuntu VPS. I followed many tutorials on this matter, but none worked for me.
The problem is, when I use one-time configuration in console:
ip addr add 2001:41D0:401:3000::XXXX/128 dev…

Dominik Szymański
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