futnuh wrote:

Does Webfaction support dynamic dns?  Our domain, edmstudio.com is hosted with webfaction.  Back here at the office, we are on broadband with a dhcp-allocated ip.  What we'd like is for traffic to office.edmstudio.com to be routed to this ip.  If it is possible, could someone please give some brief instructions about how to go about this?  ( In terms of notification, our Linksys router only lists dyndns.org and tzo.com in its DDNS section.  Likely then we'd have to get one of our internal Linux boxes to notifiy the outside of ip changes.)  Any advice is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Darran.

Right now you can only change the IP address that your domains or subdomains point to through the control panel.
We can add an API method for this if that makes it easier for you ? Would you be able to run a script every time your IP changes to call the API and change the IP address on our system ?

Cheers,

Remi.

futnuh wrote:

Yes, please, an api method for this would be wonderful.  I can run a script when the ip changes ...

OK. Give us 2 or 3 days ... It's new year's eve after all


Cheers,

Remi.

We've added 2 new API methods with the following signature:

create_dns_override(session_id, domain, a_ip='', cname='', mx_name='', mx_priority='', spf_record='')

and

delete_dns_override(session_id, domain, a_ip='', cname='', mx_name='', mx_priority='', spf_record='')

Here is a sample usage:

>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('https://api.webfaction.com/')
>>> session_id, account = server.login('test5', 'password')
>>> server.create_dns_override(session_id, 'mytestdomain.com', '168.0.0.1', '', '', '', 'v=spf1 a:mail1.webfaction.com ?all')
{'domain': 'mytestdomain.com', 'a_ip': '168.0.0.1', 'spf_record': 'v=spf1 a:mail1.webfaction.com ?all', 'mx_name': '', 'cname': '', 'mx_priority': '', 'id': 303}
>>> server.delete_dns_override(session_id, 'mytestdomain.com')
[{'domain': 'mytestdomain.com', 'a_ip': '168.0.0.1', 'spf_record': 'v=spf1 a:mail1.webfaction.com ?all', 'mx_name': '', 'cname': '', 'mx_priority': '', 'id': 303}]
>>>

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Remi.

I found a bug on that api call, if you add the same override twice it goes in.

Round robin is nice. I think it should be up to the software rather than the API (though I can see where this would cause confusion) to do this.

> Is this API only available to Python, or could I use it in PHP too?  I assume I probably can with the XMLRPCLib?

The API is available via XMLRPC, so any language that can use that protocol can use the API.

Regards,

~Chris Sebastian

I tried this, and it seems to take a while before the it works when I update the ip, is it normal ?

Thanks, will do, for those interested, here is my update script :

import urllib2
import xmlrpclib
import os

currentip = urllib2.urlopen('http://whatismyip.org').read()

if not os.path.isfile('lastip'):
    f = open('lastip', 'w')
    f.close()
    
with open('lastip', 'r') as f:
    lastip = f.read()

if lastip != currentip:
    server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('https://api.webfaction.com/')
    session_id, account = server.login('username', 'password')
    server.delete_dns_override(session_id, 'subdomain.domain.com')
    server.create_dns_override(session_id, 'subdomain.domain.com', currentip, '', '', '', '')

    with open('lastip', 'w') as f:
        f.write(currentip)

    print('IP updated to %s' % currentip)
else:
    print('IP not updated')

You only need to request a low TTL once per domain.  All subdomains will receive the same TTL as the domain that they come from.

Christopher S.

Wow, it would be really neat if that script would be invoked by launchd, on the event of an IP address.
If the machine would happen to be offline, it would be great to be able to fwd. the page to a sorry-we're-offline page...

http://meinit.nl/using-dyndns-iphone-os … ab-launchd