I am tryinf to figure out if I have the wrong idea about multiple images or I do have some sort of error on my linode:

The way I understand Linode to work is that I can have multiple images of stack distros and whichever is the last rebooted is the active one. So based on this I could have say a Mercury Ubuntu 9.10 in one image (say 4 gigs) and another of Mercury ubuntu 10 (also with 4 gigs)...

So if I boot with one or the other, that one is the "active" image.

Correct?

So should this affect DNS settings at the Linode level? That is, Do changing images implies any sort of tweak on the DNS settings at Linode?

If not, then I have a problem because booting into the 2nd image...the server cannot be reached via http.

I appreciate the help. The Library is not 100% clear on this (or I miss something)

K

I've never tried it but I imagine it won't make any difference, when you say you can't reach via HTTP, what error do you get?

Can you ping your node, ssh into your node?

Yeah, pings beautifully....

No.

DNS does ONE THING. It resolves a domain name into a IP. That's it.

So if you can ping your server via domain name - DNS is doing all it's going to do.

So your 2nd image is misconfigured somewhere. Firewall? Apache? To little info besides "it don't work" to guess.

ok it pings beautifully...so what error do you get when you try to access it from your browser?

Cannot access server. Message varies from browser to browser, but in all cases, it is as if the server does not exist.

Just test it again. One image works (the first I created), the other does not.

Anything in your web server error logs?