Dynamic DNS Update Using Lynx

redir

New Member
Hello,

It's been quite some time since I've ran my home server. I'm just a hobbyist. But anyway long time ago I was able to update my IP to change the A record with a very simple command that ran every 20 minutes as a cron job. The command was as follows:

lynx -source -auth=<username>:<password>'https://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=<hostname>'

This appears to no longer work. I've read all the dynamic dns threads on the forum and watched the videos and don't see that this is any longer supported.

Is this implementation or something like it still possible?

Regards.
 

markjr

easyZone CEO
Staff member
It should still work, any method that worked before we acquired Zoneedit will still work now. What's the output you're seeing when you try it?
 

markjr

easyZone CEO
Staff member
That means you have a pre-existing URL forwarding record which is blocking this update. You have to remove that URL forwarder and then this will start working.
 

redir

New Member
Ok not sure if I am doing this correct but I went to my godaddy account where I registered the name and updated the domain name forwarding. I am getting a different error now and not sure why. The error appears to be because I am pinging the service too often but I commented out my cron job which pinged every 30 minutes.

<ERROR CODE="702" PARAM="600" TEXT="Minimum 600 seconds between requests" ZONE="hereweare.us">
 

zeadmin

Administrator
Staff member
The URL forward blocking this is in your DNS settings here, not over on godaddy. But once you fix this, you need to also change your nameserver delegation over to zoneedit, or these updates will never take effect.
 

zeadmin

Administrator
Staff member
And yes, you have to wait 10 minutes between updates. It's a pain when debugging but there's a tonne of zombies out there hitting us like every second. It's ridiculous.
 

redir

New Member
Well I'll be darned it worked. I had two URL Redirects because my ISP will not allow port 80 and I need to use ww2 instead of www. so I had @ and www redirect to my host name at port 8080. So now that it is working can I go ahead and set up those redirects so that it's not required of me to use ww2 only?

Regards.
 
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