Updating Multiple Namecheap Hosts

[icydeadpeeps]

Hey guys, I've been search for a way to do this for a few days and haven't gotten anything to work.

I have a domain through Namecheap and that domain has multiple sub-domains. I am using my N66U with Merlin to update the www host for my domain but want to simultaneously update the other hosts as well.

It seems that to do this in other cases people say to delimit the hosts with "-a" however this is not working for me. Anytime I try adding multiple hosts no matter the delimiter I get a Request Error.

I talked with Namecheaps support and they said I should be able to delimit with "-a" (although I'm not entirely sure they actually knew that or just wanted to get rid of me).

Has anyone here accomplished this or know how I can do it?

Thanks

 

[saintdev]

Hey guys, I've been search for a way to do this for a few days and haven't gotten anything to work.

I have a domain through Namecheap and that domain has multiple sub-domains. I am using my N66U with Merlin to update the www host for my domain but want to simultaneously update the other hosts as well.

It seems that to do this in other cases people say to delimit the hosts with "-a" however this is not working for me. Anytime I try adding multiple hosts no matter the delimiter I get a Request Error.

I talked with Namecheaps support and they said I should be able to delimit with "-a" (although I'm not entirely sure they actually knew that or just wanted to get rid of me).

Has anyone here accomplished this or know how I can do it?

Thanks

They are probably assuming you're using the official Namecheap DDNS client or perhaps some other client. Which we're not.

Personally I just created subdomains with CNAME entries that point to my DDNS subdomain.

 

[icydeadpeeps]

They are probably assuming you're using the official Namecheap DDNS client or perhaps some other client. Which we're not.

Personally I just created subdomains with CNAME entries that point to my DDNS subdomain.

Well I wanted to use SVR records after this to cause the traffic to go to different ports based on what subdomain was navigated to. Then have my router forward those ports to different machines on my network (technically different jails on my FreeNas box).

I'm not sure how to get those same results by using CNAME records.

 

[owine]

What about using DNS-O-Matic?

 

[saintdev]

Well I wanted to use SVR records after this to cause the traffic to go to different ports based on what subdomain was navigated to. Then have my router forward those ports to different machines on my network (technically different jails on my FreeNas box).

I'm not sure how to get those same results by using CNAME records.

Maybe I'm missing something, but don't SRV records take a domain name as a target anyway? Also, as far as I know there's no way, even using the official Namecheap DDNS client, to update SRV records anyway.

 

[cdysthe]

I'm using DNS-O-Matic to update both OpenDNS and Namecheap DDNS. Set up DDNS in your Namecheap account. Set up the services you need in DNS-O-Matic and use the following in our router DDNS setup:

Server: WWW.DNSOMATIC.COM
Host name: all.dnsomatic.com
User name or Email address: <Your DNS-o-Matic user name>
Password: <Your DNS-O-Matic password>

The only little problem has been that the confirmation response for an update is some xml code for Namecheap but the updates works well regardless.

 

[icydeadpeeps]

Maybe I'm missing something, but don't SRV records take a domain name as a target anyway? Also, as far as I know there's no way, even using the official Namecheap DDNS client, to update SRV records anyway.

From what I've seen in other people's implementations of it they had the SRV point to a specific subdomain and domain and send that traffic to different ports. Then my router would forward different ports to different machines. Basically similar to this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19015138/how-to-redirect-dns-to-different-ports

I'm using DNS-O-Matic to update both OpenDNS and Namecheap DDNS. Set up DDNS in your Namecheap account. Set up the services you need in DNS-O-Matic and use the following in our router DDNS setup:

Server: WWW.DNSOMATIC.COM
Host name: all.dnsomatic.com
User name or Email address: <Your DNS-o-Matic user name>
Password: <Your DNS-O-Matic password>

The only little problem has been that the confirmation response for an update is some xml code for Namecheap but the updates works well regardless.

This actually got me closer than I was. We might be on to something. I had tried DNS-O-Matic before but didn't know about the "all.dnsomatic.com" trick. When I use this I actually get a response back saying registration was successful. When I check in DNS-O-Matic though one of my hosts was updated and the others have errors. The problem is that you can't enter multiple services in DNS-O-Matic with the same domain. I entered multiple services by changing the domain to the full subdomain.domain path but it isn't updating those. I'll keep toying with settings in DNS-O-Matic though.

Thanks for the help