[H-GEN] Firewall configuration on a remote machine

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, gavin duley wrote:

> I don't think there are any, but then I have no access to dom0 (aka the 
> host machine). I guess this one of the downsides of using a commercial 
> virtual host.

Hi Gavin.  Check with the provider.  Every VPS provider that I've looked 
at closely allows console access of some description.  For example, Linode 
allows access to a serial console via ssh to an IP not on my VPS.  I 
needed to put in an RSA key pair for this to work.  They also offer an 
AJAX console through their managememnt interface if you are really stuck.

> I guess the answer would be to backup key files, and then just reinstall 
> everything from scratch if it goes wrong. This is easy enough to do, 
> even if I've lost access to the machine (there is a web interface to 
> allow you to do this). It seems a bit overdramatic, though.

If the VPS provider expects you to reinstall after an error like locking a 
firewall then you need a new VPS provider.

Cheers,

Rob

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