add checkip script and a client to update the IP

[dyn-nsupdate.git] / client.py

diff --git a/client.py b/client.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+import urllib2, socket, urllib, sys
+# configuration variables
+user = 'yourusername'
+password = 'yourpassword'
+domain = 'your.domain.ralfj.de'
+# END of configuration variables
+myip = urllib2.urlopen('https://ns.ralfj.de/checkip').read().strip()
+currip = socket.gethostbyname(domain)
+if myip == currip:
+       # nothing to do
+       sys.exit(0)
+
+# we need to update the IP
+result = urllib2.urlopen('https://ns.ralfj.de/update?user='+urllib.quote(user)+'&password='+urllib.quote(password)+'&domain='+urllib.quote(domain)+'&ip='+urllib.quote(myip)).read().strip()
+if 'good '+myip == result: 
+       # nothing to do, all went all right
+       sys.exit(0)
+
+# there was an error :(
+print result