This new facility will service the growing Asia Pacific demand for low-latency cloud services, and joins the growing number of options for your Linode Cloud deployments. The Tokyo facility delivers all of our services including Linodes, Managed Backups, and NodeBalancers.

There is no premium for placing Linode instances in our Asia Pacific location. Pricing for this location is the same as our other facilities.

You can use our speedtest page to test latency and download speeds from Tokyo or any of our six facilities. We can easily migrate your Linodes from one facility to another — just open a support ticket and we’ll take care of you.

This new deployment is located at Telecity Group’s state-of-the-art Powergate facility (tour) with peering to many well connected providers including Deutsche Telekom, Interoute, Level3, PCCW-BTN, Telia and Tiscali.  You can use our speedtest page to test latency and download speeds.

Our new London facility has immediate availability.  Please open a support ticket if you’d like to migrate your existing Linode to London.  Alternatively, you can add a new London Linode to your account and clone your existing Linode to it. When you remove your original Linode you will receive a prorated credit for the unused time.

In response to your requests for a European presence, we’ve had this effort in development for many months and are extremely pleased to be able to go live today.

Did you know that you can migrate your Linode to any of our four facilities? Switching datacenters is simple: One button press and your Linode and its contents are automatically migrated.  If you’re interested, please submit a support ticket.  We’ll set up a migration and issue you the new IPs, and you can shutdown and initiate the migration when you’re ready.

You can test ping and download times for all four of our facilities with the links provided in this forum post.

Please open a support ticket if you’re interested in migrating to that datacenter.

-Chris

Hurricane Electric has informed me that this Friday, February 20th, ns1.he.net will be set to no recursion, meaning it will only answer DNS queries for domain zones HE’s dns servers are authorative for. Also, ns2.he.net and ns3.he.net have already been turned off.

Linode.com’s DHCP servers have been including a non-HE name server, ns.theshore.net which is on a remote network (XO) and might cause delays if left as the only working name server in your resolv.conf file.

The new name servers have been added in Linode.com’s DHCP server. If you use DHCP you should “cat /etc/resolv.conf” and look for “the bad guys” IP listed. You can get the correct configuration by one of the following methods: edit /etc/resolv.conf (see below), restart your networking, acquire a new DHCP lease, reboot your Linode.

Note to Gentoo users: Gentoo’s DHCP doesn’t seem to grab /etc/resolv.conf from DHCP. You’ve got to edit it manually.

Good /etc/resolv.conf (besides the search line)
[code]nameserver 64.62.190.9
nameserver 65.19.175.2
nameserver 65.19.176.2
nameserver 65.19.174.2
nameserver 64.5.53.6
nameserver 216.156.129.65
[/code]

The Bad Guys:

ns1.he.net 216.218.130.2
ns2.he.net 216.218.131.2
ns3.he.net 216.218.132.2

The Good Guys:

ns2.theshore.net 64.62.190.9 – HE-Linode (0 hops away)
ns1.fmt.he.net 65.19.175.2 – HE
ns2.fmt.he.net 65.19.176.2 – HE
ns1.sjc.he.net 65.19.174.2 – HE
ns1.theshore.net 64.5.53.6 – TP-Linode
ns.theshore.net 216.156.129.65 – XO-Linode

-Chris

All new host machines (host9 and up) will be located at Hurricane Electric.

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For more information, please see the Linode Network Infrastructure page.

-Chris