I have a MikroTik router (RouterOS v4.x) with an ADSL connection at work, unfortunately it comes with dynamic public IP address. I need to connect to my office workstation or simply the MikroTik router from home or elsewhere but I need to know its latest IP address all the time, so I decided to use ZoneEdit’s Dynamic DNS service.
Add a new script to the MikroTik router (replace those in bold):
- /system script add name=zoneedit-dyndns source=”/tool fetch url=\”http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html\?host=dyndns.example.com&dnsto=127.0.0.1\” user=ZEUser password=ZEPass keep-result=no\r\n/delay 30\r\n/tool fetch url=\”http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html\?host=dyndns.example.com\” user=ZEUser password=ZEPass keep-result=no” policy=read
Test the script by running it manually:
- /system script run zoneedit-dyndns
If it shows 2 lines of “status: finished”, then the script works properly.
Schedule the script to run regularly (in this case, every 10 minutes):
- /system scheduler add name=”zoneedit-dyndns” interval=10m on-event=”/system script run zoneedit-dyndns” policy=read,test
Why does it require 2 “fetch” commands to update? I think there is a bug in ZoneEdit’s Dynamic DNS updater, so it needs to be forced. The new dynamic DNS change entry has to be significantly different from the previous dynamic DNS entry before the ZoneEdit backend would really update it.
Thanks, ZoneEdit!