#Dynephant
Chriv said dynephant was broken right now, but i noticed that it still updated my ip address but would bother me every 30 seconds about how it didn't work. All I did was replace the error message and set the timer that used to be for the error message to the daemon timer for waiting between checks.
Dynephant is a simple, open-source Dynamic DNS (DDNS) client for Windows. It is intended to have as few dependencies as possible. It was written, because, at the time of it's creation, very few DDNS services had support for IPv6. More specifically, dynv6.com, a DDNS service, had support for IPv6, but no real Windows client.
Currently, Dynephant only supports dynv6.com, but could easily be adapted to work with other DDNS services as well.
Dynephant should run on most reasonably current versions of Windows (and even some not so reasonably current). It requires valid IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP stacks. To work correctly, it requires a working Internet connection with support for IPv4 and IPv6. It contacts the dynv6.com service via HTTPS (depending on Internet Explorer 3 or greater, which should be present in all reasonably current versions of Windows).
It can be run either as an AutoIt3 script (requiring AutoIt3 to be installed), or a pre-compiled executable (requiring no runtime not already part of Windows). The dependency on IE for HTTPS creates some intrinsic limitations on reporting of errors (namely, that errors are known, but the cause is not automatically).
Only one exe is currently available and you have to run it via a the batfile, which you will have to configure with the -host, -token and -daemon arguements. Just open it with notepad or a similar text editing program and paste in your own information.
##Table of Contents
##Prerequisites
- A relatively current version of Windows
- Internet Explorer 3 or higher installed
##Build requirements (if you want to build .exe from source)
- AutoIt3 (https://www.autoitscript.com)
- AutoIt3Wrapper (part of AutoIt3 by default)
- Au3Check (part of AutoIt3 by default)
- Tidy (part of AutoIt3 by default)
- GnuWin32's sed utility (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm)
- Optional: Valid Code-signing certificate / key
- Optional: Windows 10 SDK's signtool (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk)
- Optional: Working internet connection (needed to have signed timestamp on .exe files)
- Optional: NSIS's makensis (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download) (needed to build setup)
##License
Dynephant is licensed using the (extremely permissive) MIT license. See the LICENSE.txt file.
The included icon is courtesy of http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com (link back required by author if used)
##Usage
First, you need an account with dynv6.com, with at least one host.
Once you have an account with dynv6.com, find your host name and authentication token.
The command line arguments are: currently irrelevant since there is now to execute the script using command line
You have to edit $host and $token on line 92 in the autoIT script. Not setting $daemon results in only one update (or attempt) occurring. Setting $daemon to less than 300 seconds (5 minutes) results in the default of 1800 seconds (30 minutes) being used. -host takes only the host name (leave off the dynv6.net part), not the FQDN.
The following example assumes your Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) for your host name is foobar.dynv6.net, and your authentication token is randomtextforfoobarhere:
If you want Dynephant to automatically periodically set the AAAA (IPv6 Address) record, but not the A (IPv4 Address) record for your host every 10 minutes (600 seconds), you would run the autoIT script with lines 92-95 like this:
$host = "foobar"
$token = "randomtextforfoobarhere"
$daemon = 600