tinydnsdyn - Dynamic DNS for DJBDNSs tinydns

It has been a while since I have touched tinydns-dynamic but some new updates and changes have been made.

Why tinydnsdyn (previously tinydns-dynamic)

I have been using the djbdns DNS server package for many years and I seem to like the ‘DJB way’ (although I use ’runit’ instead of ‘daemontools’). I like knowing my services are monitored and restarted if they die. Almost all my services on each of my services are run this way and I have had no troubles whatsoever with their performance or uptime.

Tinydnsdyn is a simple script to enable dynamic DNS for the DNS server written by Dan Bernstein, tinydns. It filled a small hole that was missing on one of my previous jobs and was written quickly and roughly to fill that void. It has been some years since I have used it and now decided to clean it up and spit it out again.

Features?!

It is pretty simple but here are some of its features:

• It uses Python which is available on most *nix servers.
• It is designed to be run using daemontools (or similar) which if you are running tinydns then you will most likely already have that up and running.
• Some basic security is built in. It uses a simple nonce digest authentication and you can restrict the hosts that can have dynamic IPs.
• Simple logging

So see how it fits you.

Getting it

Code can be grabbed from the tinydnsdyn Git repository and you can tell me about all the bugs and mistakes on the tinydnsdyn ticket tracker