Update the IP address of one or more of your records of one or more GoDaddy domain(s) every 5 minutes.

Based on:

• Alpine Linux
• Bash
• Curl
• Ca-Certificates

1. Login to https://developer.godaddy.com/keys with your account credentials.

2. Generate a Test key and secret.

3. Generate a Production key and secret.

Obtain the key and secret of that production key.

In this example, the key is dLP4WKz5PdkS_GuUDNigHcLQFpw4CWNwAQ5 and the secret is GuUFdVFj8nJ1M79RtdwmkZ.

1. Make sure you have Docker installed
2. Download docker-compose.yml
3. Edit it as you wish (see the section on environment variables
4. Launch the container with docker-compose up -d

1. Make sure you have Docker installed

2. Launch the Docker container from the image with:

   sudo docker run -d --name=godaddyddns --restart=always \
   -e TARGETS=[[mydomain.com,A,@];[mydomain2.com,A,*]] \
   -e KEY=dLP4WKz5PdkS_GuUDNigHcLQFpw4CWNwAQ5 \
   -e SECRET=GuUFdVFj8nJ1M79RtdwmkZ -e DELAY=1200 \
   qmcgaw/godaddy-ip-ddns

Replace the environment variables with your own values, refer to the section on environment variables

1. Set the necessary variables

   TARGETS="[[mydomain.com,A,@];[mydomain2.com,A,*]]"
   KEY=dLP4WKz5PdkS_GuUDNigHcLQFpw4CWNwAQ5
   SECRET=GuUFdVFj8nJ1M79RtdwmkZ
   DELAY=1200 # optional

   • Option 1 of 2: Set environment variables with a terminal
   • Option 2 of 2: Paste this block of code in godaddyddns.sh after the first line #!/bin/sh
   • Replace the values with your own values, refer to the section on environment variables

2. Make the script executable with:

   sudo chmod +x godaddyddns.sh

3. Test the script by running it with:

   ./godaddyddns.sh

4. Run the shell script with screen for example or as a service.

With a browser, go to https://dcc.godaddy.com/manage/yourdomain.com/dns (replace yourdomain.com) and check the Value of the record of type A is set to your current IP address

You might want to try to change the IP address to another one to see if the update actually occurs.