This shell script implements dynamic DNS using the DomRobot XML-RPC API by INWX.
This script can update nameserver entries with your current WAN IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
It uses the nameserver.updateRecord
method of the API.
advantage: You don't need payed dynDNS-accounts for multiple domains.
disadvantage: The minimum TTL is 300 (5 minutes). The dynDNS-Service allowes 60 (1 minute).
There exists the dyndns.updateRecord
method in the DomRobot API. Therefore you need a DynDNS-account by INWX. If you need this option, feel free to change the script to your needs.
In order to run the script you need to have installed the following command line tools:
- curl
- awk
- nslookup or drill
recommendation
- xmllint (libxml2-utils)
If xmllint is not on your system you have to set the domain record id in your config files.
Note: 2-Factor-Authentification method (2FA) is not implemented.
Simply clone this project or download the master.zip
and extract it, e.g., using wget
and 7z x master.zip
.
Place your config files in the nsupdate.d
folder. A dist.config.sample
file with all possible options is provided. At least one config file needs to exist, ending with `.config.
All .config files (one for each dns-record) will be processed by looping them.
For home.example.com you may create:
A-Record Update configuration e.g.
myV4.config
INWX_USER="USERNAME"
INWX_PASS="PASSWORD"
MAIN_DOMAIN="example.de"
DOMAIN="home.example.de"
TYPE="A"
IP_CHECK_SITE="https://api.ipify.org"
AAAA-Record Update configuration e.g.
myV6.config
INWX_USER="USERNAME"
INWX_PASS="PASSWORD"
MAIN_DOMAIN="example.de"
DOMAIN="home.example.de"
TYPE="AAAA"
IP_CHECK_SITE="https://api6.ipify.org"
With crontab -e
you can add the following line for running the script every 5 minutes:
*/5 * * * * bash /home/$USER/nsupdate/nsupdate.sh
2020-07-03
- Rearranged config.sample
- Updated Readme
- Getting the Domain-Record-ID via XML-RPC API
2020-05-11
- Updated Readme with some hints
- Updated config.sample with a hint for TTL
2020-03-31
- Made time to live configurable
2019-12-20
- Fixed DomRobot XML-RPC API syntax
- Added some more documentation
2015-07-22
- Changed the way how the existence of config files is checked
- Updated the sample config file to reflect new options from the last updates
- The script is reported to work in csh and sh too
2015-06-30
- Fixed the check for config files. Can now handle more than one file
- Changed warning for missing config files
2015-01-12
- Added checks for needed commands
- Added checks for existing config file
- Added requirements to README.md
2014-02-21
- Added support for IPv6
- Added support for config files
2014-01-02
- Changed default IP check site to ip.dblx.io
- Added a switch to use drill instead of nslookup because FreeBSD 10 switched from bind to unbound
- Renamed $HOSTNAME to $DOMAIN to work around potential conflicts with $HOSTNAME that's set by the host itself
2014-01-06
- Config files are sourced relative to the script folder now
2013-07-12
- First commit
nsupdate is distributed under the MIT license, which is similar in effect to the BSD license.
Copyright 2013 Christian Busch (https://github.com/chrisb86)
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