vagrant-ddserver

This repository provides a Vagrant environment for the ddserver project.

ddserver is a server-side application for dynamic DNS.

It allows you to specify hostnames (subdomains) inside a dynamic DNS zone, and to update the IPv4 address of those hostnames using the dyndns2 update protocol (http://www.noip.com/integrate). This enables you to access hosts with dynamic IP addresses by a static domain name, even if the IP address changes.

Some of its features are:

• Nice and intuitive Web-UI
• IP-address update using the dyndns2 protocol
• Support for multiple domains
• Configurable number of hosts per user
• Strong encryption of all passwords (host and user)
• Supports distributed installation

The project homepage is https://ddserver.org

Requirements:

• VirtualBox > 4.2 (http://www.virtualbox.org)
• Vagrant > 1.4 (http://www.vagrantup.com)
• Git (http://www.git-scm.com)
• *nix based operating system

By default the virtual machine uses a no-worry private NAT network interface. To give you access to the virtual machine services there are some pre-configured port forwardings.

• TCP guest 8080 to your host 8080 provides access to the ddserver Web-UI
• UDP guest 53 to your host 5353 allows to query dynamic hostnames added with ddserver
• TCP guest 22 to your host 2222 provides SSH access, but you can also just run vagrant ssh

Usage:

1. Install VirtualBox and Vagrant on your computer
2. Checkout this repository with: git clone https://github.com/ddserver/vagrant-ddserver.git
3. Change the directory to vagrant-ddserver
4. Run vagrant up to start the virtual machine
5. Grab a cup of coffee
6. Point your browser to http://localhost:8080
   • You can login with the default username and password: admin
   • For testing you can do the following:
     • Add a zone, i.e. example.org
     • Add a hostname, i.e. test.example.org
     • Use dig or nslookup to query the DNS server on localhost:5353 for your hostname

You can log into the VM with username vagrant and password vagrant. To get root access, use sudo -i. The root password is set to vagrant as well.

Under the hood

The Vagrantfile allows you to control the behavior of your virtual machine. On your first run Vagrant will download a Vagrant basebox based on a minimal Debian 8 with pre-installed Python 2.7. from the following location: http://dump.0x80.io/DebianJessie.box

Based on this machine a setup of ddserver and all its dependencies will be deployed through saltstack. In detail, the following saltstack states are executed:

common

• Install some tools like git, python dependencies and a recent version of setuptools
• Run a full debian system upgrade
• Set a motd with instructions on how to use the vm

mysql

• Install and start the mysql server

powerdns

• Install, configure and start powerdns

ddserver

• Checkout, build and install python-mysql-connector
• Clone the ddserver latest master source from github
• Compile and install ddserver
• Create an initial /etc/ddserver.conf and the ddserver log file
• Create the ddserver database, database user and install the database schema
• Install init script or systemd service and enable ddserver
• Install powerdns backends and install the ddserver zone
• Start ddserver on port 8080

Customization

If you want to run your Vagrant with a different branch or a fork of ddserver you can configure the git URL and branch parameter in the saltstack pillar: salt/roots/pillar/ddserver.sls

To change the port forwardings or the vagrant basebox, edit the Vagrantfile.

Have fun.