Challenge 8 script

The full summary of all posts for API Rackspace challenge can be found here:
Rackspace api-challenge summary

Challenge 8 script

Below is the output and results from script #8 from the api-challenge.
The script checks that there isn't cloud files challenge8 container and no DNS domain rado-challenge.org.
As the script runs it create the container and DNS domain.
It uploads index.html file to the container and sets the meta data according to Serve A Static Website Fast, Without Servers.
Once the job is done it prints some info.

 
$ python challenge8.py
[16:26:00] Creating container challenge8 and uploading small index.html file.
[16:26:00] Creating DNS domain rado-challenge.org and setting CNAME records
[16:26:03] Static site details: (make sure you point your DNS to Rackspace Cloud DNS servers):
[16:26:03] ping challenge8.rado-challenge.org
[16:26:03] curl -v http://challenge8.rado-challenge.org/index.html
[16:26:03] curl -v http://8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com

With the default configuration on any of the cloud servers we will not be able to fully test it. Our domain is not registered anywhere and Rackspace cloud servers don't recursively resolve our CNAME record.

These are some testing to see how it works.

 
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Automatically generated, do not edit
nameserver 83.138.151.81
nameserver 83.138.151.80

$ ping challenge8.rado-challenge.org   
ping: unknown host challenge8.rado-challenge.org

# the 65.61.188.4 is Rackspace cloud dns server (Google it)
# dig +short @65.61.188.4 challenge8.rado-challenge.org                   
8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com.

# curl -v http://8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com     
* About to connect() to 8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 2001:668:108:b::216:3f40... connected
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: 8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Last-Modified: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:25:58 GMT
< ETag: 60098552c51f8570fe0e59982f6a0869
< X-Timestamp: 1366820758.32217
< Content-Type: text/html
< X-Trans-Id: tx703c6bed688e40dcb184b3d5e3d6b084
< Cache-Control: public, max-age=900
< Expires: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:32:21 GMT
< Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:21 GMT
< Content-Length: 28
< Connection: keep-alive
<
Hello challenge8, it works!
* Connection #0 to host 8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com left intact
* Closing connection #0

root@server:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf 
# Automatically generated, do not edit
nameserver 69.20.95.4
#nameserver 83.138.151.81
#nameserver 83.138.151.80

# dig challenge8.rado-challenge.org  

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> challenge8.rado-challenge.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2047
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;challenge8.rado-challenge.org. IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
challenge8.rado-challenge.org. 300 IN   CNAME   8d6b88807b981953cc63-629fa6387722ad10d7413e8f778f5452.r54.cf3.rackcdn.com.

;; Query time: 108 msec
;; SERVER: 69.20.95.4#53(69.20.95.4)
;; WHEN: Wed Apr 24 17:22:25 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 134

References

1. https://github.com/rtomaszewski/api-challenge/tree/challenge8
2. http://serverfault.com/questions/196048/what-would-be-causing-a-recursion-requested-but-not-available-error-using-dbnd