Monday, May 15, 2006

dynamic dns

In addition to the usual work of making playlists, recording from MD etc, today C from WS rang up - configuring the playout server to use an ADSL line with dynamic IP.

Using a free domain from changeip.com, wrote a one line script to do the dns updates:


wget "https://www.changeip.com/update.asp?u=$USERNAME&p=$PASSWORD&cmd=update&set=1&offline=0"


Using http didn't work - it was being set to the ISP's proxy IP. Thankfully https worked. Put it in the cron to run hourly.
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  1. hn_88October 03, 2006 8:50 AM

    Soon found that hourly updates were overkill. The ip was changing only once in a week or so. And at similar times - 2 pm Joberg or something like that. So, updates only at times important for me.

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