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Using Python for Dynamic DNS with optional Email Notification

On March 31, 2022May 25, 2024By dustin

If you host services at home, an ISP can ruin your day by suddenly changing your home IP address. Luckily, many DNS providers allow you to automatically update your records with them via an offering known as Dynamic DNS. My DNS provider, Google Domains, supports either a client or API option and offers instructions here. […]

Adding A records with Ansible

On January 15, 2022March 23, 2022By dustin

I have two raspberry pis that I use as DNS servers for my home network. The pis run dnsmasq and allow me to create custom internal records. In order to add a new DNS entry for my internal network I simply add a record to pi-53 and pi-153’s /etc/hosts file. When other devices on my […]