From 9212ef438c3a18d176e856c738b017929b9e75eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason D. McCormick" Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:13:42 -0400 Subject: add proxy note --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bea978a..b0b1ec8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -55,6 +55,17 @@ Any other unsupported option or no options will print a usage message. Returns 0 on success or 1 on failure. Failure message returns the exact error from dyn.dns.he.net, no more and no less. +# Note on Proxies +If you have curl(1) configured at a system or user profile level to use a +proxy or be proxy aware, this script will likely produce undesired results. +You must do one of two things: + +1) Configure the environment this script runs in to suppress proxy configuration + +2) Use the -a and -A flags to set the IP addresses manually + +Otherwise, the HE DNS service will auto-detect the proxy address and not the host address. + # Usage This script is designed to be called from a Cron entry or another script. An example usage: -- cgit v1.2.3