Dynamic DNS
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Objective
Supports for DNS names for VMs in EGI Federated cloud are recently required by many VOs. The aim of this taskis to provide Dynamic DNS support for VMs in EGI Federated Clouds. Users can register their chosen sensible names in given DNS domains (e.g. my-server.vo-name.egi.eu) and assign to public IPs of their VMs in EGI Federated Cloud. By using Dynamic DNS, users can host servers in EGI Federated Cloud with their chosen server names, can freely move VMs from sites to sites without modifying server/client tools, can request server certificates in advance and reuse them and many other advantages.
Participants
Viet Tran (IISAS) viet.tran _at_ savba.sk
Requirements
Basic functionalities
Web-based GUI interfaces for registering DNS names for EGI users DNS server with Dynamic DNS support for forward DNS Command-line clients for assigning registered
Advanced functionalities
Using EGI Checkin services Command-line client for registering DNS names
Not compulsory but desired functionalities
Support for reverse DNS
Used technologies
BIND9 server with configuration for updating DNS names via RFC 2136 nsupdate.info software for registering and managing DNS names/domains
Current status
A testing domain fedcloud.eu is being registered for testing and development (without touching production domains like egi.eu) DNS servers are installed and configured for fedcloud.eu domain Portal is installed on configured Users can register themselves and log in portal, can register DNS names within fedcloud.eu domain and assign to VMs
Next steps
Integrate to EGI CheckIn service Support for command-line clients for registering domains