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Get a list of your Route53 subdomains using aws cli docker image

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Problem

You would like to have a list of your subdomains for a specific domain (hosted zone), that are hosted in Amazon’s Route 53.

Solution

You can install the aws cli docker image from here https://github.com/cgswong/docker-aws if you don’t want to install the aws cli in your computer.

You can afterwards start the container with:

docker run -it cgswong/aws:latest

Then configure it by running the following and adding your credentials and zone:

efe9881d4fd:/tmp# aws configure
 AWS Access Key ID [None]: aws_access_key_id
 AWS Secret Access Key [None]: aws_secret_access_key
 Default region name [None]: eu-central-1
 Default output format [None]:

Then run the first command to get a list of the hosted zones and get the id of the hosted zone you want to find the subdomains for:

3efe9881d4fd:/tmp# aws route53 list-hosted-zones
{
    "HostedZones": [
        {
            "ResourceRecordSetCount": 2, 
            "CallerReference": "RISWorkflow-RD:xxxxx", 
            "Config": {
                "Comment": "HostedZone created by Route53 Registrar", 
                "PrivateZone": false
            }, 
            "Id": "/hostedzone/HOSTEDZONEID", 
            "Name": "domain.net."
        },

Then pick the HOSTEDZONEID and run the following to get a list of subdomains for that domain:

3efe9881d4fd:/tmp# aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone="HOSTEDZONEID" | grep "Name" | uniq

   "Name": "alpah.domain.com.",                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
   "Name": "beta.domain.com.",                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
   "Name": "lamda.domain.com.",
......

Find your public IP address from linux command line

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Problem

You would like to find out your public IP from the command line without using an online service

Solution

Use dig like the following line (taken from https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-find-my-public-ip-address-from-command-line-on-a-linux/):

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

you could also add it as an alias:

alias myip=”dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com”

Find your Thinkpad (X1) model type in linux

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Problem

You would like to find out the exact model from your Thinkpad X1 laptop, by using your linux command line.

Solution

Use the following command:

kosmas:$ sudo dmidecode | grep -A3 '^System Information'
[sudo] password for kosmas: 
System Information
        Manufacturer: LENOVO
        Product Name: 20HRCTO1WW
        Version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th

Get a list of directories with user permissions

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Problem

You want to run a command in a hosted server but you don’t have su permissions. There are directories that have different owners/permissions, so you would like to see them.

Solution

Use the tree command and save the output in a file if you have many directories:

tree -pufid /home/directory_to_check > /home/user/permissions.txt

taken from the answer here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/82374

curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused

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Problem

You would like to access a host set up with nginx after adding your own vhost configuration file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/myfile.smth, but you get Connection refused.

Solution

Make sure that your nginx configuration file has the .conf extension as /etc/nginx/conf.d/myfile.conf.