Digital Ocean Dynamic DNS-Updater

Purpose:

Allows the dynamic updating of an 'A' record that is managed by Digital Oceans DNS server. As well as providing an automatic setup script allowing the easy creation of cron jobs so you dont have to think about it again.

Liberated From:

The original script and idea (i.e. the brains behind the whole thing) was lovingly taken from 'pushingkarma.com'.

However it was written using Python v2, I had installed v3 so adapted the script as best I could. I then decided it would be cool to also convert it into PHP (I know at least 1 other person that would find it useful) so that's what I did, enjoy!

I forked this to add the automatic setup script

Usage:

Provide your API key, domain you want to update and the 'Record' for that domain and schedule the script to run however often you want (using for example the Windows Scheduler or a cron job).

E.g:

My home server has a sticky IP, I want to be able to connect to it remotely using:

home.example.com

I'd create an 'A' record in DO with the hostname 'home', under the domain 'joebloggs.co.uk' and while I was there retrieve my 'Personal Access Token'.

Setup and Usage:

To setup and use this first download the projuce using

git clone https://github.com/syonfox/Digital-Ocean-Dynamic-DNS-Updater.git

navigate to that folder

cd Digital-Ocean-Dynamic-DNS-Updater

make the setup script exicutable

sudo chmod +x setup.sh

run the setup script ( and read it hopfully read it unless you really trust me :P )

sudo ./setup.sh

ok its now all sey up to add a dynamic dns update job you can run the command (anywhere) adddyndns accessToken domain record were 'accessToken' is your 'Personal Access Token', 'domain' is the domain name you want to update (e.g: joebloggs.com) and 'record' is the value of the a-record you want to update (e.g: home). So if I wanted to make my computers domain name home.example.com I would enter:

adddyndns myToken example.com home

Example Usage:

Look at this if you want to just update the dns once. The php script has been designed to be called as a command line tool. Config is passed into it in the form of CLI parameters, for example:

php updater.php accessToken domain record

python updater.py accessToken domain record

were 'accessToken' is your 'Personal Access Token', 'domain' is the domain name you want to update (e.g: joebloggs.com) and 'record' is the value of the a-record you want to update (e.g: home).

Thanks to:

@surfer190, @nickwest, @gnoeley, @ryanwcraig for adding additional features, testing code and feedback.