bigbluebutton
Improve NAT configuration
Sometimes the NAT configuration / external IP detection fails - it happened to me this morning.
The only way of getting the setup done was manually overriding the external_ip variable within the bbb-install.sh script (maybe a DNS resolution problem).
It would be good if we can specify the external nat ip address as a parameter in the bbb-install call (with a new parameter -n).
Something like this (a.b.c.d is the external nat ip):
wget -qO- https://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/bbb-install-2.5.sh | bash -s -- -v focal-250 -s bbb.example.com -e [email protected] -w -n a.b.c.d
This would allow more flexibility, for instance, to use an external API:
wget -qO- https://ubuntu.bigbluebutton.org/bbb-install-2.5.sh | bash -s -- -v focal-250 -s bbb.example.com -e [email protected] -w -n `curl -s https://api.ipify.org`
PS: I'll send a PR for this soon, just writing the idea here for discussion.
yes never worked perfect, big problem when server know public ip
i recommend using "sed" commands that can be run atfer every update/upgrade
sed 's/privatIP/publicIP/g'
but a option "--external-ip=8.8.8.8" would do the job
