Your server has a dynamic IP address and you use Gandi as domain name server? Then Gandyn is for you!
This is an unsecure script based on Comète's work. It uses Gandi LiveDNS API to update your DNS record. Server public IP address is retrieved from many sources.
First of all you have to enable API interface for your domain on Gandi web interface. Gandi will then give you an API key. Copy paste it to your gandyn config file.
There is a 'gandyn-git' package in AUR.
The python standard way works.
$ wget -O gandyn.tar.gz https://github.com/Chralu/gandyn/tarball/<version>
$ tar xvzf gandyn.tar.gz
$ cd gandyn/src/
# python setup.py install
If you encounter issues with the xmlrpc.client missing module, you may try to install with Python 3.3 (or any other version 3 of python you may have)
$ python3 setup.py install
Add execute permission to gandyn.py
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gandyn.py
Gandyn gets its configuration from a simple python file. Config file syntax is described later. To run Gandyn, use the command :
gandyn.py --config <path to the config file>
To get Gandyn run every 5 minutes, add the following line to your crontab.
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/gandyn.py --config <path to the config file>
Configuration file is a simple python script that defines global constants.
This is unsecure, so it is important that nobody can change the config file content.
Here is a basic config file with default values:
#API key generated by Gandi
API_KEY = ''
#Name of the domain to update
DOMAIN_NAME = 'mydomain.net'
#Time to live of the updated record
TTL = 300
#Filters used to find the record to update.
#By default, the updated record is "@ A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
#Where 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' is the updated value
RECORD = {'type':'A', 'name':'@'}
#Log level of the script. Values are :
# logging.DEBUG
# logging.INFO
# logging.WARNING
# logging.ERROR
# logging.CRITICAL
LOG_LEVEL = logging.DEBUG
#Path of the log file
LOG_FILE = 'gandyn.log'