An anagrammatic, turn-key CouchDB eventual replacement for the base free dynamic dns use case. It reports a nameserverless public ip address to a pair of couchdb's, and the public one 302's outside traffic back to the private one.
More info about CouchApps here. [including installation]
Make some databases:
curl -X PUT http://name:password@localhost:5984/candyminds
curl -X PUT http://name:password@localhost:5984/candyminds/current_ip_address -d @initial.json
curl -X PUT https://name:password@youraccount.iriscouch.com/candyminds
curl -X PUT https://name:password@youraccount.iriscouch.com/candyminds/current_ip_address -d @initial.json
Put some application logic in the local one:
couchapp push . http://name:password@localhost:5984/candyminds
Edit the poller.py CAPITALIZED_VARIABLES, or do something equivalent to it in
some other language. You can run a process like poller.py from within
couchdb by adding the following lines to your local.ini:
[os_daemons]
candyminds_poller = /usr/bin/python /opt/poller.py
[This works great in Debian and not really in OS X, will run in foreground on either.]
Once you see that your local database has been updated, set up continuous replication (in futon -> replicator -> local candyminds to iriscouch candyminds).
Then visit your new easy-to-remember-url at
http://youraccount.iriscouch.com/candyminds/_design/cm/_show/current/current_ip_address
You can create an easier-to-remember url by using vhosts and one of iriscouch's
handy alternate urls, ie in youraccount.iriscouch.com/_utils in configuration,
create a record like this:
vhosts youraccount.iriscou.ch/casa /candyminds/_design/cm/_show/current/current_ip_address
and access your server at youraccount.iriscou.ch/casa