easyDNS dynamic DNS client specifications. v1.3 Apr 2001

We are always happy to have more third party clients supporting our service. It benefits us to give end users as much choice as possible between packages and platforms and it hopefully benefits the software developers as their clients incorporate support for one of the fastest growing dynamic DNS providers on the internet.

But enough hype, what follows below is what you need to know to code a dyndns client for use with easyDNS. Giving credit where credit is due, the protocol used below was adapted from the format used at dyndns.org. After evaluating various approaches out there we felt theirs was the simplest and most straightforward. There are some differences, i.e. the back_mx parameter has a different meaning to our system.

If you code a completely generic client and follow the specification below, to can perform dynamic DNS updates by executing a GET method request on the following URL:

http://members.easydns.com/dyn/dyndns.php

You can send the following parameters in the QUERY_STRING of a request, for example:

http://members.easydns.com/dyn/dyndns.php?hostname=example.com&myip=10.0.0.2

If you do code a client for easyDNS, please email our support team so we can keep you informed of any changes, enhancements, bugfixes etc.

Also, please be sure to let us know about your client, which platform it runs on and where our users can download it so we can add it to our dynamic page.


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