Updating GoDaddy DNS from linux [closed]
Solution 1:
Currently, GoDaddy does not provide dynamic DNS, and have no API to programmaticaly update DNS
According to GoDaddy support:
... DNS modifications through scripts would not be possible with our DNS services. These changes can only be done from within the DNS Manager interface that is provided as part of your customer account.
Thus you need 3-rd party provider for dynamic DNS, and you have the following options:
Move your domain to DNS hosting service which does support dynamic DNS (like no-ip.com, my own net-me.net, and many others). GoDaddy may remain your domain registrar, but you use 3-rd party DNS hosting.
(Simpler) Setup any dynamic DNS account, can be 3rd-level domain like yourusername.some-dynamic-dns-provider.net, and setup a CNAME DNS record with GoDaddy which will point to your dynamic domain name. For example if you have
www.yourdomain.com CNAME yourusername.some-dynamic-dns-provider.net, all requests for www.yourdomain.com will be redirected by DNS to your dynamic IP address. Though CNAME record can not be created for naked domain (yourdomain.com, without www.).You can also move you domain altogether to another domain registrar, which does support dynamic DNS. (I think namecheap.com does.)
Solution 2:
Assuming you have a server running Linux, and you are looking to update a DNS A record with the IP of your home server, you could do the following on the home server. Note that it my violate your EULA. Be sure that you follow the rules!
Install Python2.7 (it is likely already installed).
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Place the following file at
/config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.py. It is the part that does the actual work of updating godaddy using the pygodaddy library. It will update all domains associated with your godaddy account. It will set an A record for the '@' subdomain wildcard. You can edit this, if you want to specify alternate subdomains. You must also replace '@USERNAME@' with your godaddy username and '@PASSWORD@' with your godaddy password.#!/usr/bin/env python import logging import pif import pygodaddy # Original Source: # https://saschpe.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/godaddy-dyndns-for-the-poor/ # https://github.com/observerss/pygodaddy # # Modified by Jeremy Sears (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1240482/jsears) logging.basicConfig(filename='godaddy.log', format='%(asctime)s %(message)s', level=logging.INFO) # the "requests" library logs noisily, so turn that off logging.getLogger("requests").setLevel(logging.WARNING) logging.debug("DEBUG: Running godaddy_ddns.py"); U="@USERNAME@" P="@PASSWORD@" client = pygodaddy.GoDaddyClient() success = client.login(U,P) if success: logging.debug("DEBUG: Successfully logged in.") else: logging.error("ERROR: Failed to log in to godaddy.com with username: '{0}'.".format(U)) for domain in client.find_domains(): logging.debug("DEBUG: Looking up DNS Records for {0}.".format(domain)) dns_records = client.find_dns_records(domain) public_ip = pif.get_public_ip() logging.debug("DEBUG: Domain '{0}' DNS records: {1}".format(domain, dns_records)) logging.debug("DEBUG: Current Public IP '{0}'.".format(public_ip)) if len(dns_records) == 0: logging.debug("DEBUG: No existing DNS records found.") else: logging.debug("DEBUG: Existing IP in DNS is '{0}'.".format(dns_records[0].value)) if len(dns_records) == 0 or public_ip != dns_records[0].value: logging.debug("DEBUG: Updating A record for domain '{0}'.".format(domain)) success = client.update_dns_record("@."+domain, public_ip) if success: logging.info("INFO: Domain '{0}': Successfully set public IP to '{1}'.".format(domain, public_ip)) else: logging.error("ERROR: Domain '{0}': Unable to update public IP to '{1}'.".format(domain, public_ip)) else: logging.info("INFO: Public IP A record DNS record for domain '{0}' is up to date, and does not need to be updated.".format(domain)) Run
sudo chown root /config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.py- Run
sudo chmod u+x /config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.py -
Place the following file at
/config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.sh. This is a wrapper script that sets up a virtualenv to isolate the libraries used by the python script. It then invokes the above python script.#!/bin/sh # Original Source: # https://saschpe.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/godaddy-dyndns-for-the-poor/ # https://github.com/observerss/pygodaddy # # Modified by Jeremy Sears (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1240482/jsears) OLD_PWD=$PWD ROOT_DIR=$(dirname $0) if [ -n "$1" ] ; then WORKING_DIR=$1 else WORKING_DIR=$ROOT_DIR fi mkdir -p $WORKING_DIR cd $WORKING_DIR if [ ! -d .venv27 ] ; then curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.tar.gz tar xvfz virtualenv-1.9.tar.gz python virtualenv-1.9/virtualenv.py .venv27 fi source .venv27/bin/activate pip install -q --upgrade pif pygodaddy $ROOT_DIR/godaddy_ddns.py deactivate cd $OLD_PWD Run
sudo chown root /config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.sh- Run
sudo chmod u+x /config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.sh -
Place the following file at
/etc/cron.hourly/run_godaddy_ddns(no file extension). This will call the godaddy_ddns.sh script each hour.#!/bin/sh WORKING_DIR=/var/local/godaddy_ddns exec /config/scripts/godaddy_ddns.sh $WORKING_DIR exit 0 Run
sudo chown root /etc/cron.hourly/run_godaddy_ddns- Run
sudo chmod u+x /etc/cron.hourly/run_godaddy_ddns - Logs will be written to
godaddy.login the/var/local/godaddy_ddnsdirectory. This directory can be changed by editing the run_godaddy_ddns script. -
Place the following file at
/etc/logrotate.d/godaddy_ddns(no file extension). This will ensure that your log file doesn't fill up your disk, by rotating the log file. If you changed the logging location, you will need to edit the log file location./var/local/godaddy_ddns/godaddy.log { weekly missingok rotate 12 compress delaycompress notifempty copytruncate maxage 365 }
Security Note: You probably should edit the run_godaddy_ddns script and su to a user other than root, so that the script is run with more limited permissions.