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Any docker recommendations for a utility that can update DNS, based on current external IP?

I've used ddclient in the past, but it seems like its not working anymore, oddly.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main required feature that complicates things a bit is rate limiting since a lot of providers do not appreciate getting lots of update requests to the same IP in a short period of time if you e.g. reboot repeatedly but also will eventually delete names that are never updated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ideally you'd check the public ip against the dns resolved ip (without cache) before launching an update and have a timeout (let's say 30s) after.