source setup/functions.sh # load our functions # Basic System Configuration # ------------------------- # ### Install Packages # Update system packages to make sure we have the latest upstream versions of things from Ubuntu. echo Updating system packages... hide_output apt-get update apt_get_quiet upgrade # Install basic utilities. # # * haveged: Provides extra entropy to /dev/random so it doesn't stall # when generating random numbers for private keys (e.g. during # ldns-keygen). # * unattended-upgrades: Apt tool to install security updates automatically. # * cron: Runs background processes periodically. # * ntp: keeps the system time correct # * fail2ban: scans log files for repeated failed login attempts and blocks the remote IP at the firewall # * sudo: allows privileged users to execute commands as root without being root # * coreutils: includes `nproc` tool to report number of processors # * bc: allows us to do math to compute sane defaults apt_install python3 python3-dev python3-pip \ wget curl sudo coreutils bc \ haveged unattended-upgrades cron ntp fail2ban # Allow apt to install system updates automatically every day. cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic </dev/null | grep "^port " | sed "s/port //") #NODOC if [ ! -z "$SSH_PORT" ]; then if [ "$SSH_PORT" != "22" ]; then echo Opening alternate SSH port $SSH_PORT. #NODOC ufw_allow $SSH_PORT #NODOC fi fi ufw --force enable; fi #NODOC # ### Local DNS Service # Install a local DNS server, rather than using the DNS server provided by the # ISP's network configuration. # # We do this to ensure that DNS queries # that *we* make (i.e. looking up other external domains) perform DNSSEC checks. # We could use Google's Public DNS, but we don't want to create a dependency on # Google per our goals of decentralization. `bind9`, as packaged for Ubuntu, has # DNSSEC enabled by default via "dnssec-validation auto". # # So we'll be running `bind9` bound to 127.0.0.1 for locally-issued DNS queries # and `nsd` bound to the public ethernet interface for remote DNS queries asking # about our domain names. `nsd` is configured later. # # About the settings: # # * RESOLVCONF=yes will have `bind9` take over /etc/resolv.conf to tell # local services that DNS queries are handled on localhost. # * Adding -4 to OPTIONS will have `bind9` not listen on IPv6 addresses # so that we're sure there's no conflict with nsd, our public domain # name server, on IPV6. # * The listen-on directive in named.conf.options restricts `bind9` to # binding to the loopback interface instead of all interfaces. apt_install bind9 resolvconf tools/editconf.py /etc/default/bind9 \ RESOLVCONF=yes \ "OPTIONS=\"-u bind -4\"" if ! grep -q "listen-on " /etc/bind/named.conf.options; then # Add a listen-on directive if it doesn't exist inside the options block. sed -i "s/^}/\n\tlisten-on { 127.0.0.1; };\n}/" /etc/bind/named.conf.options fi if [ -f /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original ]; then echo "Archiving old resolv.conf (was /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original, now /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.original)." #NODOC mv /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.original #NODOC fi # Restart the DNS services. restart_service bind9 restart_service resolvconf