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Info	Hover DNS Updater for Dynamic IP. See GitHub for the latest source.
Author	Mark Silva, based on a script from GitHub by Andrew Barilla

About

hover-dns-updater will update the Hover DNS entries for one or more DNS records based on the external IP address. hover-dns-updater can do this one time or can run continuously checking after a certain amount of time.

Installation

Prerequisites:

• Python 3

  • Download

• pip3

  • Linux - sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
  • Windows - python -m ensurepip --upgrade

• Installed packages

  • requests
    • Linux - sudo pip3 install --upgrade requests
    • Windows - pip install --upgrade requests

Hover DNS IDs:

• Login to Hover.com
• In the same browser go to https://www.hover.com/api/domains/YOURDOMAIN.COM/dns replacing YOURDOMAIN.COM with the domain you want to update
• This will return a json file. If you use Firefox, this will be nicely formatted.
• In the "entries" list, look for the DNS records you want to keep up to date and make a note of the associated "id"s. They should look something like "dns1234567"

Install Ubuntu service:

• Copy INSTALL.sh, hover-dns-updater.service, and hover-dns-updater.py to a folder on you Ubuntu system

• ./INSTALL.sh

• This will install and enable, but not start, the hover-dns-updater service

• sudo nano /etc/hover-dns-updater/hover-dns-updater.json (or use the editor of your choice)

  • Fill in your hover username and password
  • Add the dns ids you noted above
  • Optional - change None to the log file name
  • Optional - change poll time, in seconds. Default is 10 minutes
  • When running as an Ubuntu service, the service value in the confg file is ignored.

• After configuration file is updated, start the service sudo service hover-dns-updater start

• Option - Verify service started correctly sudo service hover-dns-updater status

Create Docker container

docker build -t hover-dns-updater . ; docker tag hover-dns-updater texasaggie97/hover-dns-updater:latest ; docker push texasaggie97/hover-dns-updater

RancherOS

I am using RancherOS to host and manage Docker running in a lightweight VM on FreeNAS. Here are the docker-compose.yml and rancher-compose.yml to easily recreate the container.

docker-compose.yml:

version: '2'
volumes:
    logs:
        external: true
        driver: rancher-nfs

services:
    alarmserver:
        image: texasaggie97/alarmserver
        environment:
            ALARMCODE: "1234"
            CALLBACKURL_BASE: "https://graph.api.smartthings.com/api/smartapps/installations"
            CALLBACKURL_APP_ID: "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
            CALLBACKURL_ACCESS_TOKEN: "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
            LOGFILE: "/logs/docker-alarmserver.log"
            ENVISALINKHOST: "192.168.0.149"
        stdin_open: true
        working_dir: /alarmserver
        volumes:
        - logs:/logs
        tty: true
        ports:
        - 8111:8111/tcp
        command:
        - python
        - alarmserver.py
        labels:
            io.rancher.container.pull_image: always

    hover-dns-updater:
        image: texasaggie97/hover-dns-updater
        environment:
            USERNAME: "username"
            PASSWORD: "password"
            DNS1: "dns00000000"
            DNS2: "dns00000001"
            LOGFILE: "/logs/docker-hover-dns-updater.log"
        stdin_open: true
        working_dir: /hover-dns-updater
        volumes:
        - logs:/logs
        tty: true
        command:
        - python
        - hover-dns-updater.py
        - --service
        labels:
            io.rancher.container.pull_image: always

rancher-compose.yml:

version: '2'
services:
    alarmserver:
        scale: 1
        start_on_create: true
    hover-dns-updater:
        scale: 1
        start_on_create: true

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Bugs / Feature Requests

To report a bug or submit a feature request, please use the GitHub issues page.

License

hover-dns-updater is licensed under an GPL-style license (see LICENSE). Other incorporated projects may be licensed under different licenses.