DNS Cli Tools

CLI tools for the DNS provider Cloudflare, useful tools to manage subdomains. In the future more DNS providers can be added.

Features

• DDNS
• Registering new subdomains
• Listing subdomains
• Importing domains

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap hugo-persson/dns-cli-tools
brew install hugo-persson/dns-cli-tools/dns-cli-tools

Updating

brew upgrade dns-cli-tools

Cargo

cargo install godaddy-cli-tools

Build from source

TODO:

Usage

Run

dns-cli help

to get a list of commands.

To get started first run

dns-cli init

This will create a config file with default config. By default the config path is places at ~/.config/dns-cli-config.json, this can be overidden with the -c flag.

Watching IP for changes

One of the main use cases of this program is watching the public IP of the device it runs on and updating DNS records if the public IP changes.

To register a domain run:

dns-cli cloudflare register mysubdomain.domain.com

and replcae mysubdomain with your subdomain.

Or you can import all domains currently pointing to this IP with:

dns-cli cloudflare import

This will create/update the record for this subdomain to point to the IP adress of the device command ran at and add the record to watch list.

To check for changes run

dns-cli check

This will check if the domain has changed since the command was last run. If it is the first time the command is run then domains will be refreshed to point to current IP.

The program keeps track of last IP in a file located at ~/.lastip.txt

Troubleshooting

If any errors occur or similiar you can edit the config file manually, default location is ~/.config/dns-cli-config.json

TODO:

• Fix auto update brew tap
• Auto update cargo.toml version
• Smooth registering and deletion with inquirer