[ec2] Can't contact instance

[Tom Haddon]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 19:44 -0700, Eric Hammond wrote:
> Tom:
> 
> Right about the time you reported this, a higher than usual number of
> other people reported similar problems on the EC2 forum.  There may have
> been a localized networking or systems issue.
> 
> Amazon's AWS status board has not shown any problems at this point, so
> it may have been temporary or isolated.
> 
> I would recommend trying to start new instances, perhaps in multiple
> availability zones, to see if the problem is really with your AMI or the
> environment.

I tried starting instances of the AMI in all four availability zones and
none of the instances were contactable. I'm going to try comparing my
AMI with the stock ubuntu amd64 hardy AMI and see if I can see any major
differences.

Thanks, Tom

> --
> Eric Hammond
> ehammond at thinksome.com
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Haddon wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I'm getting a very strange issue with a particular AMI I've created.
> > It's a x86_64 image, and I'm using the stock Ubuntu AKI/ARI
> > (aki-6f709706/ari-61709708). I start an instance of my AMI and get the
> > following console output:
> > 
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/246739/
> > 
> > I can't login to the instance, or contact it via ping, even though:
> > 
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/246741/
> > 
> > Any ideas what could be going on? From what I can see of the console
> > output the machine has booted okay, but then I just can't contact it at
> > all...
> > 
> > Thanks, Tom
> > 
> >