I need to have a serious talk with my VPS provider...

I would start talking with @linuxxx about his VPN service. 😃

@BadFox not sure I see the connection, but if I ever needed another VPN (I host my own atm), I would definitely go with his. I'm still only 99% sure he isn't actually one of the spooks, sent here to infiltrate our ranks and hoover up our data through his VPN, but I'm willing to take that risk :)

Speaking of... I've been absent for a bit. Are you still working on that @linuxxx ?

Check /var/www or is there any virtualization software installed

Don't Win10 and its Linux subsystem share NICs IPs? If host OS is w10 and it's running *nix inside then... why not?

@franga2000 oooh, I should learn to read while paying more attention. I mistook VPS for VPN.

@franga2000 Yup still am but also on like 5 other projects so yeah 😅

Some providers do that for security reasons. I hope your provider is one of them. They'll serve a default IIS page including the proper headers to let clients think they connect to IIS to put potential attackers on the wrong track.

@netikras this isn't WSL. It's a virtual server running as a full VM. It has its own IP and everything. I think this was just some strange routing issue on the host machine that made all my traffic go to someone else's Windows Server VM instead. The techs said a host reboot fixed it.

Doesn't IIS work on Linux?!

@Mitiko I'm almost 100% it doesn't. Good thing, too - that sounds like a disaster.

Probably someone put that IP on their NIC, sends ARP and kind of hijacked your IP because your provider doesn’t use an ipfilter or ipset. Try tcpdumping ICMP traffic to see if traffic reaches your machine and ping your VPS. If you don’t see anything, some other host in the subnet or vLAN hijacked your IP.