freenom.yml: ttl and target parameters seem to be ignored

[xogium]

Hi, first of all, thank you for this nice dns updater ! I noticed something strange however when I try to set it up, using the provided systemd unit on my archlinux box. My /etc/freenom.yml file looks like this:

login: email@somedomain password: mypassword

• domain: mydomain.tk ttl: 300

So, the file seems to be all good, giving that fdu update /etc/freenom.yml gives no error and tell me the record was updated successfully. But here comes the issue. After doing this, if I check the result with fdu record ls email paswword domain.tk. I get: [{'name': '', 'target': 'xx.xx.xxx.xxx', 'ttl': 14440.

Notice the ttl ? Using this instead works just fine: fdu record add email password domain.tk -l 300

I also tried adding type: and target: just above the ttl: line in my /etc/freenom.yml. Nothing changed, Even the target: didn't apply, for that matter.

Any idea ? Is it something I'm doing wrong ? The systemd unit is relying on the /etc/freenom.yml file, so obviously it gets reset every time I reboot the computer, or every time I restart the service.

Thanks in advance edit: I noticed the dash character problem... so yes, for the configuration all line are one below another, it's not on the same line

[maxisoft]

Hello, Thanks for your issue.

According to your issue, you have a config file which look like :

login: email@somedomain
password: mypassword

- domain: mydomain.tk 
  ttl: 300

But it should be something as the following:

login: email@somedomain
password: mypassword

record:
    - domain: mydomain.tk 
      ttl: 300

(Notice the record: part)

If that solve your problem feel free to close this issue. Else it could be a space/tab problem. So try with something like :

login: email@somedomain
password: mypassword

record: [ {domain: mydomain.tk, ttl: 300} ]

In other case, tell me that didn't work and i'll try to investigate on what's going wrong.

Regards

Note: for your next issues on github, you can use the markdown's code block in order to provide info like configuration, stackstrace,...

[xogium]

Hello again, thank you for your quick answer. I'm really sorry I forgot the record: section there :) . But it's really present, so it's not that thing that cause the issue I'm having. As for the tab/space problem, my file is having no space or tab at all, because I noticed it was causing an error in the yml parser.

Thanks

[jamesdtyler]

I am following these instructions: https://blog.lemon.email/how-to-connect-your-domain-to-lemon-email-888a06e81859

Type: MX
Host: @
Value: smtp.lemon.email
Priority: 5
TTL: 3600 (60 min)

how would I address these in the yml config file? current:

login: jame-----@-----------
password: ----------

record:
        - domain:       swee---------.---
        - name:         ------
        - type:         A

record:
        - name:         @
        - type:         MX       
        - 

[benthetechguy]

It would look like this:

login: jame-----@-----------
password: ----------

record:
  - domain: swee---------.---
    name: @
    type: MX
    target: smtp.lemon.email
    ttl: 3600

I really don't understand what you're trying to accomplish here. This record only needs to be set once; you don't need to update it automatically like this tool does. Unless you're only trying to update that A record, in which case all you would need is this:

login: jame-----@-----------
password: ----------

record:
  - domain: swee---------.---
    name: ------
    type: A

freenom-dns-updater only updates the records you tell it to; it will not mess up an MX record that you manually set.