[tech] Test AWS instance for email and DNS
dylanh333
dylanh333 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Mar 22 16:04:48 AWST 2020
Hi All,
Just a heads up, I have now created a new EC2 instance (Amazon jargon for a somewhat standard virtual machine) on our Amazon account (see `uccpass UCC/external/aws.amazon.com`).
This VM is running Debian 10, and is running in Amazon's Sydney datacentre.
As discussed in yesterday's wheel meeting, I will be using this to experiment with hosting email - and possibly DNS - in the cloud, and will keep you updated as I progress.
For the time being, I have created an A record on our existing DNS named "cloud-mooneye", which resolves to the IP address of this VM, which is currently 3.106.59.128.
Additionally, I have pushed our wheel keys to it, so anyone on wheel should now be able to log into it by running `ssh -i <path-to-your-wheel-key> root at cloud-mooneye.ucc.asn.au`.
Once I work out what packages to install for email and DNS stuff, and how to set them up, I'm considering experimenting with creating an NS record to delegate "cloud-mooneye.ucc.asn.au" or "cloud-test.ucc.asn.au" to this VM's DNS server, and letting it do the DNS resolution of the MX record and whatnot from there.
I may first try to just get mail going (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP) with an MX record just on mooneye for "cloud-mooneye.ucc.asn.au", however, and do the DNS tinkering later.
Please let me know if you have any ideas, queries, concerns, or advice regarding this.
Cheers,
Dylan Hicks [333]
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