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DnsOMatic - easy question
Is it the DNS-O-Matic account settings + servername from the dynamic dns provider that should be written in the DNS-O-Matic settings? Not the DynDNS account settings? vi /c/addons-scripts/DnsOMa...
I had trouble setting up this add-on too. After some tinkering, I discovered the following:
Hope this helps others. Also, Super poussin, if you're listening, maybe it is worth updating the add-on to ensure execute permissions and to URL encode the variables before concatenating them to the URL. :-)
- The /c/addons-scripts/DnsOMatic/dnsomatic file did not have execute permissions. So, I ssh'd into the nas and performed a chmod +x on the file. This got the add-on correctly calling the script.
- Once I got it working I wasn't getting any response from DNS-O-MATIC. So, I peaked at the script and duplicated the curl command it was executing without the -s option so I could see the issues. It was a Bad Auth. What I realized was that the USER variable did need to be set to my email but that it didn't understand the @ symbol. I had to URL encode it with a '%40' so that it would work.
Hope this helps others. Also, Super poussin, if you're listening, maybe it is worth updating the add-on to ensure execute permissions and to URL encode the variables before concatenating them to the URL. :-)
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