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December 23, 2016 08:06
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Simple dynamic DNS client for namecheap. Looks for files in \ProgramData\DynDns in form of <yourdomain>.namecheap, containing dyndns password. Can be used with csi (C# script) and Task Scheduler
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using System.Diagnostics; | |
using System.IO; | |
using System.Net; | |
using System.Net.Sockets; | |
using System.Security.AccessControl; | |
IPAddress GetMyExternalIpAddress() { | |
var dnsQuery = new ProcessStartInfo("nslookup", "myip.opendns.com. resolver1.opendns.com") | |
{ | |
RedirectStandardOutput = true, | |
UseShellExecute = false, | |
}; | |
var lookup = Process.Start(dnsQuery); | |
var lookupResult = lookup.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd().Split('\n'); | |
bool answer = false; | |
foreach(var line in lookupResult) | |
{ | |
if (line.Contains("Name:")) | |
{ | |
System.Console.WriteLine("Got IP!"); | |
answer = true; | |
} | |
else if (!answer) | |
continue; | |
if (line.StartsWith("Address:")) | |
return IPAddress.Parse(line.Substring("Address:".Length).Trim()); | |
} | |
throw new SocketException(); | |
} | |
var appData = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData); | |
var dynDnsFolder = Path.Combine(appData, "DynDns"); | |
var adminsOnly = new DirectorySecurity(); | |
adminsOnly.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(@"BUILTIN\Administrators", FileSystemRights.FullControl, | |
InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, | |
PropagationFlags.None, AccessControlType.Allow)); | |
var hosts = Directory.CreateDirectory(dynDnsFolder, adminsOnly); | |
void NamecheapUpdateIp(IPAddress newIp, string hostName, string hostPassword) { | |
var request = HttpWebRequest.Create($"https://dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/update?host=@&domain={hostName}&password={hostPassword.TrimEnd('\n')}&ip={newIp}"); | |
request.GetResponse(); | |
} | |
IPAddress myIp = GetMyExternalIpAddress(); | |
foreach(var hostFile in hosts.EnumerateFiles()) | |
{ | |
if (".namecheap".Equals(hostFile.Extension, System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) | |
{ | |
var host = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(hostFile.Name); | |
NamecheapUpdateIp(myIp, host, File.ReadAllText(hostFile.FullName)); | |
System.Console.WriteLine($"Updated {host} to {myIp}"); | |
} | |
else | |
System.Console.Error.WriteLine("Unrecognized service type: " + hostFile.Extension); | |
} |
P.S. park-your-domain.com is owned by Namecheap. Reverse engineered from Namecheap official DynDns client.
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Don't forget to restrict access to .namecheap files to administrators only, and run script either as admin, or SYSTEM