Post archive for December, 2008
Automated Webfaction DNS Override Updates
Posted by on December 9, 2008.
I use DNS overrides with WebFaction to point several subdomains to my home servers. My internet service provider, however, provides my router a dynamic IP address that changes every time my DSL modem is disconnected and then reconnected to their system. Each time this happens, it disrupts service to the home servers because WebFaction is still pointing to the old IP address. I decided to do some searching on the WebFaction forums to see if there was an easy solution to this issue. I was happy to see that I was not the first one with this issue, and WebFaction's solution was to write an XMLRPC API function allow users to create and delete DNS overrides with their own code. Reading through this post reminds me of why I love WebFaction so much. Their customer posed the question to them on December 29th, and despite the New Years holiday their ...
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