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Chris_S
Dec 07, 2013Aspirant
Duo v1 DNS updater for enom.com?
Hi All: I am using my old Duo v1 as a target for a remote backup. The target location only has a dynamic IP and I have been using the ddclient add-on on my Duo v1 to update DNS-o-Matic (i never cou...
chirpa
Dec 07, 2013Luminary
As a temporary work around, or for others that are looking for similar setup, I've been using http://www.dnsdynamic.org/ lately for a few hosts. It's a free service, and a simple shell script in cronjob can keep it updated.
# cat /etc/cron.hourly/updateip.sh
#!/bin/sh
EMAIL=my.email@gmail.com
PASSWORD=mypassword
DOMAIN=myhostname.dnsd.info
IP=`curl --silent http://myip.dnsdynamic.com/`
curl --silent --user "$EMAIL:$PASSWORD" -k "https://www.dnsdynamic.org/api/?hostname=$DOMAIN&myip=$IP"
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