DDNS DigitalOcean scripts are demystified by the experts at Bobcares for your ease. 

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our DigitalOcean Management Services.

Let’s take a look at how our Support Team is ready to help customers run DDNS DigitalOcean scripts.

All About DDNS DigitalOcean

The DigitalOcean Dynamic DNS script allows us to dynamically update a DigitalOcean domain name A record. Furthermore, the DO dynamic DNS update script with LWP and Perl resolves the external IP of the server and checks it with the DO’s domains record via the v1.0 DigitalOcean API.

In case of a mismatch, the script updates the domain record with the new IP address.

For instance, enter the DigitalOcean client credentials at the top of the script. Then, set the domain we want to update. Additionally, schedule the script to run as frequently as we prefer. Suppose, we want to connect to our home server remotely:

home.example1.com

In this scenario, we have to create ‘A’ record in DigitalOcean with the hostname ‘home’, which is under the domain ‘example1.co.uk’. At this point, we can also retrieve the API credentials.

If we are using the updater.php or python script we will require v1 of the API, client ID & key. However, if we are using v2 of the API, we have to generate a ‘Personal Access Token’.

Moving on to the installation, we can clone the git repository with the following:

git clone git@github.com:bobcares/DigitalOcean-DDNS.git

Then, we have to generate a personal access token that has write privileges via this link.

Next, make a config file with an array of domains objects as well as a personal access token under the domains key. Moreover, each domains object should consist of a “domain” key and an optional “record” key with only a single record to be updated. It may also contain a “records” key with an array of records to be updated.

According to our Support Techs, we have to ensure that we have OpenSSL libraries, as well as the required Perl modules, installed:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo cpan LWP::UserAgent LWP::Protocol::https JSON::XS File::Slurp FindBin Log::Tiny

Finally, run the update.pl script once to ensure there are no errors. We can create a cron job entry in order to run the script.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to run DDNS DigitalOcean scripts.