Hi guys,

at the moment I am working on two scripts in parallel. While one is supposed to update my DNS entry at no-ip.com the other should keep my public IP current with tunnelbroker.com. Both services offer API's via http, so the fetch command seems ideal to get the job done. However, it has occured to me, that it is not as simple as it sounds.

For the tunnnelbroker service offered by Hurricane Electric, I need to access the following URL: So I tried from the command line just to get the http command working: Unfortunately, it did not.

For the no-ip.com domain services the story becomes even more complicated. While the URL I have to call is straight forward (http://dynupdate.no-ip.com/nic/update?hostname=babylon5.hopto.org) the page requires basic http authentication. So I tried to pass along that information with the fetch command.
My point being is, that the fetch command can be quite complex. Is there a documentation, example ... how this command was intended to be used? What parameter combinations actually make sense? What are the limitations of the fetch command? - Any advice is appreciated!

Greetings from Germany,
Rabbit@Net
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Running RouterOS 4.3 on RB450G

try just

Hi Chipaka,

thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it did not do the trick. A simple test with worked fine. However, I receive an error 404 when I use . Are there some parameters I can use to fix this?

Greetings from Germany,
Rabbit@Net

Maybe try using it like this?

/tool fetch url="http://username:password@website.net/somesite.htm" for stuff that requires authentication.

works for me.

ipv4.tunnelbroker.net appears to not serve unless the HTTP request specifies a "Host:" parameter.

*Arrghh* - jepp, it is working fine.

I'll port my script as soon as its done. Thanks to you all!

Hi RabbitAtNet,

Are you able to share your two (DNS and HE.net) update scripts at all, please? I'm struggling quite a bit to get the scripts already posted in the Forum and Wiki going.

Thanks,

Tony