If you are facing the snapshot restoring and No SSH problem like me, Its easy to fix.
Here is the problem. I took a snapshot of my old server and then restored it to new server. Now I can’t SSH to it, or just ping to any external site in that server (ping google.com doesn’t work). However, everything is working in the digital ocean console side.
I spent 5 long hours to find this solution. I hope to help you too!!!
Solution:
Open DigitalOcean console and login to your server. (If the previous password doesn’t work, just reset/forgot password it)
type ifconfig
and click enter.
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:107265 (107.2 KB) TX bytes:107265 (107.2 KB)
ifconfig -a
ens3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c2:eb:73:62:d7:5d
.......and so on.
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:109321 (109.3 KB) TX bytes:109321 (109.3 KB)
ens3
to the network interface. To do that, type ```
cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo iface lo inet loopback
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
5. Go to the source, which is ```/etc/network/interfaces.d/``` for me.
Type ```cat /etc/network/interfaces.d```
6. Type ```ls``` and edit the file there. For me, its ```50-cloud-init.cfg```.
So, type ```nano 50-cloud-init.cfg```
7. This is your previous server's network configuration, just change the values of ```IP Address``` and ```Gateway```. You can find these values in your Digital ocean >Droplet>Networking section.
Also, add ```ens3``` device or whatever we found in step 3.
Make the file similar to this,
auto lo iface lo inet loopback dns-nameservers 67.207.67.2 67.207.67.3
auto lo ens3 iface lo inet loopback
iface ens3 inet static address 68.183.xx.xxx/20 gateway 68.183.xx.x
iface ens3 inet static address 10.47.0.5/16
8. Done, It should work now. Try ```ping google.com``` & should work properly.
Thank me later, Regards,
Sreekant Shenoy
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Thank you so much! Your answer is the only one that fixed my problem.
If it doesn’t work even after this, do this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/no-internet-connection-after-droplet-reboot
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Thanks for sharing this write-up @geekyblop !
Can I ask one favor: for consistency, can you move the “Answer” portion of your write-up to an Answer on this question?