AutoDNS Cli (Shell)

A small cli-client for the InternetX AutoDNS API to update a record with an IP address.

Use-cases

• starting VMs/servers and automatically provision them with DNS records
• creating DNS records for domains on the fly
• dyn (dynamic) DNS client

Usage

Configuration

You need to start this with:

$ export AUTODNS_USER=your_login
$ export AUTODNS_PASSWORD=your_password
$ export AUTODNS_CONTEXT=4
$ export MY_ZONE=example.org

Bonus points: Create an .autodns-cli.rc with the above.

Updating/Creating a record

Then run with:

$ ./autodns-cli update foo.example.org 127.0.0.1

Deleting a record

$ ./autodns-cli delete foo

_Assumption: foo.example.org if your zone is example.org.

Dependencies

• bash
• curl
• jq
• log (OSX)

For tests

• bats
• assert.sh
• shellcheck

Debugging

Use charles for debugging and run with:

$ WITH_CHARLES=1 ./autodns-cli ...