requestbin.net - The Next-Gen RequestBin

Information

Project: requestbin.net

Demo: https://requestbin.net

Author: [email protected]

Repository: https://github.com/requestbin/requestbin.net

Blog: https://requestbin.net/post/whats-new-in-the-next-gen-requestbin

Release notes

Release date: 05 May 2022

Current verion: 2.0

Features:

1. Support both DNS and HTTP on an unique ID
2. Support automatically storing the list of IDs
3. Blog

Installation

Pre-installation Requirements

To install an instance like requestbin.net, you need some bellow things:

1. A domain with full DNS control
2. A Heroku account
3. A VPS run linux server
4. A mongodb server

There are 3 parts in a requestbin.net system:

1. Main website run on Heroku
2. DNS server for DNSBin
3. Blog

1. Setup website on Heroku

First, clone this repo using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/requestbin/requestbin.net.git

From the project directory, create a Heroku application:

$ heroku create

Set an environment variable to indicate production:

$ heroku config:set SERVER_NAME=requestbin.net

$ heroku config:set MONGODB_URI=mongodb://user:Passsword@exampleserver:port/db?retryWrites=true

Now just deploy via git:

$ git push heroku master

It will push to Heroku and give you a URL that your own private RequestBin will be running.

Important: The RequestBin Next Gen run like "Multi-Tenant". So, the domain config step bellow is very important: Set main domain as normal:

$ heroku domains:add requestbin.net

The CNAME got after this command like whispering-xxx.herokudns.com. is use for DNS config.

Next, add wildcard subdomain for "Multi-Tenant"

$ heroku domains:add *.b.requestbin.net

The CNAME got after this command like whispering-example.herokudns.com. must be memory for next step.

2. Setup DNS Server

This step must be done on the prepared server.

Clone this repo using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/requestbin/requestbin.net.git

Edit dnsbin.sh

$ cd dnsbin/

$ mv dnsbin.sh.example dnsbin.sh

Change MONGODB_URI and WORK_PATH as your system. Especially, change the CNAME as the CNAME which you got after config *.b.requestbin.net at last step.

Setup Iptables to forward port 53

Because you cannot open directly port 53, you must open another and forward port via Iptables via bellow rules:

-A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8853
-A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8853
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8853 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 8853 -j ACCEPT

Setup supervisor

Read here for the guide to install supervisor

After that, use the file at dnsbin/supervisor.conf for the dnsbin application.

DNS Config

On this step, you must use the DNS controller to add 2 records bellow:

• Add a "A" record for the domain "ns1.requestbin.net" that points to "the server ip".
• Add a "NS" record for the domain "b.requestbin.net" with the value "the server ip".

3. Setup Blog

The blog on requestbin.net/blog is automatically synchronized from our Github repo https://github.com/requestbin/blog

You can setup a repo like the requestbin/blog with bellow steps:

Edit the blogsync.sh

$ cd blogsync
$ mv blogsync.sh.example blogsync.sh

Change MONGODB_URI, BLOG_REPO as yours. The BLOG_REPO's format is requestbin/blog

Run synchronize

$ bash blogsync.sh

You can run it periodically by installing via crontab.

References:

• https://github.com/Runscope/requestbin
• https://github.com/HoLyVieR/dnsbin