Externally hosted domain: change IP with API-call?

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Hello,

Is this possible and how:

I want to change the IP-adress of a given sub-domain (hosted externally of course) with a call to webfaction's API. Kind of dynamic dns.

Thanks & regards, Stephan

Answer 1

Yes, you can do that using the Create DNS Override function.

If you already have a DNS record for that subdomain, you will need to delete it first.

Something like the following should work on python 2:

import xmlrpclib

username = 'your_username'
password = 'your_password'
machine = 'your_machine'  # Capitalized

subdomain = 'your_subdomain'
current_ip = 'your_current_ip_address'
new_ip = 'your_new_ip_address'

server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('https://api.webfaction.com/')
session_id, account = server.login(username, password, machine, 2)

server.delete_dns_override(session_id, subdomain, current_ip)
server.create_dns_override(session_id, subdomain, new_ip)

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