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dnsme-ddns-updater
Advanced tools
DNS Made Easy dynamic record updater
For running as a daemon:
npm install -g dnsme-ddns-updater
For usage as a library:
npm install --save dnsme-ddns-updater
Run the dnsme-ddns-updater
command with the following required arguments:
--username
followed by your DNS Made Easy username--password
followed by the password associated with the record you are updating--record-id
followed by the record identifier for the record you are updatingUse the following optional argument:
--check-interval
followed by the number of seconds between public IP checks (no less than 30 seconds)var DNSMEDDNSUpdater = require('dnsme-ddns-updater')
var updater = new DNSMEDDNSUpdater({
username: "bob@example.com",
recordId: "8882239",
password: "theyllneverguess",
checkInterval: 120
})
updater
.on("change", function (ip) { console.log("ip changed: %s", ip)})
.on("error", function (err) { console.warn(err.message) })
import {RecordUpdater} from 'dnsme-ddns-updater'
const updater = new RecordUpdater({ username, recordId, password })
updater.updateRecord('10.0.0.1')
.then(() => console.log('Updated!'))
.catch(err => console.warn(err.message))
FAQs
DNS Made Easy dynamic record updater
We found that dnsme-ddns-updater demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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