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I have several Amazon EC2 instances, running Ubuntu 10.04, with which I'd like to use Amazon's Route53. I setup a script as described in Shlomo Swidler's article, but I'm still missing something.

When the script runs, it doesn't return any output, which I initially assumed meant it ran correctly. However, when I check the DNS records using MyR53DNS, there are no entries for my instances. Here's my script:

#!/bin/tcsh -f

set root=`dirname $0`
setenv EC2_HOME /usr/lib/ec2-api-tools
setenv EC2_CERT /etc/cron.route53/ec2_x509_cert.pem
setenv EC2_PRIVATE_KEY /etc/cron.route53/ec2_x509_private.pem
setenv AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID myaccesskeyid
setenv AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY myaccesskey

/usr/bin/ec2-describe-instances | \
perl -ne '/^INSTANCE\s+(i-\S+).*?(\S+\.amazonaws\.com)/ \
and do { $dns = $2; print "$1 $dns\n" }; /^TAG.+\sShortName\s+(\S+)/ \
and print "$1 $dns\n"' | \
perl -ane 'print "$F[0] CNAME $F[1] --replace\n"' | \
xargs -n 4 /etc/cron.route53/cli53/cli53.py \
rrcreate -x 60 mydomain.com

Does anyone see a problem with this script? If its not the script, what else could be preventing my Route53 domain from being updated?

I am using the Security Groups to IP-restrict the instances. I've tried opening port 53, but that didn't seem to have an effect. Is there another port that Route53 uses?

I'd appreciate any help or guidance the ServerFault community can offer. Let me know if you need any further info.

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What region are you expecting to be using? Remember the default is US-East, if yours is anything else you need to explicitly say so.

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  • My instances are all in us-east-1c. I think I did specify US-East as the region when I setup my zone, but I'll have to double-check that.
    – ks78
    Feb 14, 2011 at 21:51
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I posted this question in several different places looking for an answer. I finally found it on the StackExchange Unix & Linux site.

I hope this helps someone else out there.

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  • It would be more helpful if you posted the correct answer here as well.
    – daveadams
    Feb 15, 2011 at 16:46

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