peterpt / godaddy-update

A simple script to update your server ip in godaddy domain using their api

Godaddy-Update

This is a simple script to those who have servers on a dynamic ip and dont want to worry about changing their new ip at their domain in godaddy .

This script is based on the work of https://github.com/michaudg/godaddy-ddns i wrote it for my server . This script automatically verifies your ip every 10 minutes and check if your godaddy needs to be updated or not . This script creates a logfile with the output in /var/log/godaddy.log

Requirements

• Curl
• touch
• jq
• netcat
• dig

Install Dependencies

apt-get install curl touch jq netcat dnsutils

How to make it work .

Edit the file godaddy-update and paste there :

• Your godaddy production API

• Your API Secret

• Your Domain name

• Save your changes

• Move the file godaddy-update to /usr/local/sbin folder

• Move godaddy-startup to /etc/network/if-up.d/

• Give execution permissions : chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/godaddy-update && chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/godaddy-startup

When you startup your server you will see in your init system the startup of the script .

Notes

This script will run in background without disturbing your terminal , do not execute the script without changing first the domain config data . if you need to stop the script then write in your terminal "pkill godaddy-update"

Note 2

if you dont want to restart your server then after configuring all data in godaddy-update file write in your terminal

cd /usr/local/sbin

./godaddy-update &

• Godaddy script will run in a background process