install BBB in EC2 instance

leopaulo88 commented 5 years ago

I'm getting the error... bbb-install: DNS lookup for m resolved to 1**** but did not match local 1.**..***.

ffdixon commented 5 years ago

If you do ping for the hostname on the BigBlueButton server, does it resolve to the correct IP address?

leopaulo88 commented 5 years ago

if I ping the server address BBB get the elasticIP ip of EC2

michi-80337 commented 2 years ago

Elastic IP addresses are public addresses, that can be connected to a server. They keep the same if the server is stopped and started again, but they have to be configured on your server. The User Guide for Linux Instances has more detailed information about that.

The current version of bbb-install.sh should be able to handle regular public IPs (well, at least as long as the server runs, which is ok if you just want to do some tests) and Elastic IPs.

So, please check following:

Is your server configured correctly? You can check the configured interfaces with: ip -f inet address show Can you see your elasticIP in that list?
Are you able to ping the elasticIP from your server and from the outside?
Are you able to connect to your server from the outside (i.e. via ssh or mail or whatever service is running on the system)?
Does the IP address in DNS match the elasticIP?

If you are able to connect to your server with the elasticIP, but the address doesn't show up in the output of the ip command, then you are behind a router which does NAT for you. We would like to know in such a case your elasticIP and the output of following commands:

head -c 3 /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid
wget -qO- http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4

Please obfusciate the IP addresses a little bit from the right end to keep your privacy intact. The output of the first command should be something like "EC2".

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install BBB in EC2 instance #57