How to (exactly :-)) use autodns/lexicon for «other» registrar, e.g. Hetzner?

[nopasaran]

What type of hardware are you using: Raspberry Pi 3, 4+
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.0.9.1
How are you able to access your server: The webadmin
SSH
Are you in a special context or did you perform specific tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?: no

Describe your issue

tl;dr: I would like to use the autodns function with Hetzner DNS. I read at several locations, that this could work. But found anywhere hints/documentation where to exactly find, how to use/configurate autodns for other registrars than officially supported.

Hi everyone
I’m new to Yunohost and no IT Pro, but set up my first server on a RPi behind a dynamic IP. In general, everything works great and I also set up DynDNS (with own domain) via YDNS.

But YDNS is restricted, I would like to use my top level domain (and no subdomain), and the DNS records with several subdomains are rather complicated for me. So I read about autodns/lexicon for use with any registrar, especially Hetzner, where my domain is registered.

I did a intensive search, but found only recommendations of autodns/lexicon (here, here), but nowhere any hint of how to use it exactly, nor a documentation, nor found it on my server, nor in the webadmin.

So: Can you help me how to proceed?
I’m grateful for any hints, thank you!

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[Tagada]

Hi !
Here’s the documentation for getting the auth_token at Hetzner https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/api/getting-started/generating-api-token/
Then you’ll have to paste it in the configuration of your domain, on yunohost webadmin.
From there you should be able to update your DNS zone from the webadmin.

[nopasaran]

Thanks @Tagada for your quick reply! Sounds very easy. But either something is not working here or I just don’t get it…

I think by «configuration of your domain, on yunohost webadmin» you mean /yunohost/admin/#/domains/thedomain/dns ? There I just find the hint, that YH couldn’t recognize my registrar and I am encouraged to config dns manually. Did I do something wrong? Can I add information to the domain (e.g. in a config file) to make it work?

Thank you very much!

[Tagada]

Unfortunately, this looks like a bug somewhere in YunoHost core.
As the doc says, we didn’t had the chance to try every registrar. We will have to investigate this.

[nopasaran]

Thanks again, @Tagada!
In the meantime I checked if the behaviour had to do with the YDNS nameservers. But it hadn’t. So I solved the problem now with the Hetzner DDNS Updater.