# of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies,
# either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project.
-import urllib.request, socket, sys
+import urllib.request, socket, sys, argparse
# configuration variables
-server = 'ns.ralfj.de'
+server = 'ipv4.ns.ralfj.de'
domains = ['domain.dyn.ralfj.de'] # list of domains to update
password = 'yourpassword'
# END of configuration variables
+# allow overwriting some values on the command-line
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Update a domain managed by a dyn-nsupdate server')
+parser.add_argument("-s", "--server",
+ dest="server", default=server,
+ help="The dyn-nsupdate server")
+parser.add_argument("-p", "--password",
+ dest="password", default=password,
+ help="The password used to update the domains")
+parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose",
+ action="store_true", dest="verbose",
+ help="Be more verbose")
+parser.add_argument("domains", metavar='DOMAIN', nargs='*', default=domains,
+ help="The domains to update")
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
def urlopen(url):
return urllib.request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8').strip()
-myip = urlopen('https://'+server+'/checkip')
+myip = urlopen('https://'+args.server+'/checkip')
def update_domain(domain):
'''Update the given domain, using the global server, user, password. Returns True on success, False on failure.'''
- global myip
+ global myip, args
# check if the domain is already mapped to our current IP
- domainip = socket.gethostbyname(domain)
- if myip == domainip:
- # nothing to do
- return True
+ try:
+ domainip = socket.gethostbyname(domain)
+ if myip == domainip:
+ # nothing to do
+ if args.verbose:
+ print("Domain",domain,"already up-to-date, not doing anything")
+ return True
+ except socket.gaierror: # domain not found
+ pass
# we need to update the IP
- result = urlopen('https://'+server+'/update?password='+urllib.parse.quote(password)+'&domain='+urllib.parse.quote(domain)+'&ip='+urllib.parse.quote(myip))
+ result = urlopen('https://'+args.server+'/update?password='+urllib.parse.quote(args.password)+'&domain='+urllib.parse.quote(domain)+'&ip='+urllib.parse.quote(myip))
if 'good '+myip == result:
+ print("Successfully updated domain",domain,"to",myip)
# all went all right
return True
else:
return False
exitcode = 0
-for domain in domains:
+for domain in args.domains:
if not update_domain(domain):
exitcode = 1
sys.exit(exitcode)