DDNS documentation

The Simply.com DDNS-service emulates the DynDNS server protocol.

Generel

The following syntax can be used to call the DDNS Service.

https://api.simply.com/ddns.php?apikey=[APIKEY]&domain=[DOMAIN]&hostname=[HOSTNAME]&myip=[IP]

Arguments

apikey	Required	The API key for the Simply.com account. Found in our controlpanel.
domain	Required	The name of the domain (product) you wish to update. Can be in punycode format.
hostname	Required	The name of the A record you wish to update. The domain should not be appended to this. Ie. use "home", not "home.example.com".
myip	Optional	The IP-address of the DNS record. If this field is not the provided, the IP of the client (REMOTE_ADDR) is automatically used instead.

Responses

dnserr	Something went wrong
nochg	The record is already set to the IP given.
badauth	Invalid login
abuse	The record has been updated/changed too many times in a given period.
good	The record has been updated

Curl example Recommended

Use the following curl command to set home.example.com to the external IP of the requesting client:

# curl -s -L "https://api.simply.com/ddns.php?apikey=EXAMPLEKEY&domain=example.com&hostname=home"

You can set this command to run in a crontab, on a local machine, every 15 minutes or so.