Dynamic DNS With Your Own Domain Name And Webfaction
I have been moving more of my websites hosting over to my Webfaction account. It has been a good experience overall and the service there is much more powerful than what I get with my GoDaddy hosting account.
Yesterday I found in the support forums a nice little script that allows me to use one of my domain names (or subdomain) and re-direct the DNS settings to my local computer. This way I can remotely connect to my home computer with SSH/HTTP/FTP etc. using a url that I will remember.
This is going to be useful as I am writing some Python Django web applications.
Here’s the script:
import urllib2 import xmlrpclib import os currentip = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.whatismyip.org').read() if not os.path.isfile('lastip'): f = open('lastip', 'w') f.close() with open('lastip', 'r') as f: lastip = f.read() if lastip != currentip: server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('https://api.webfaction.com/') session_id, account = server.login('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD') server.delete_dns_override(session_id, 'YOURDOMAIN.com') server.create_dns_override(session_id, 'YOURDOMAIN.com', currentip, '', '', '', '') with open('lastip', 'w') as f: f.write(currentip) print('IP updated to %s' % currentip) else: print('IP not updated')
Once this is run, I can update my router settings to forward the appropriate services to my computer and give the DNS servers enough time to propagate the new entry.
I can now connect to my Home computer using my own domain name. Pretty cool.
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