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Great script, just what I was looking for.

A simple improvement would be to handle record names like "VPN" and "vpn" as identical when checking for existence.

At the moment, if you use upper case letters in the record name, you will see this erroneous message:

DNS record "VPN" does not exists - will be created.

instead of the (correct):

DNS record "VPN" is up to date - nothing to to.

However, contrary to the first warning, no new record "VPN" will be created (if a record "vpn" already exists), because DNS names and hostnames are case-insensitive by default.

OpenWRT uses ddns-scripts to provide generic DDNS configuration through SSH and the LuCI web interface.

The main thing that sets the Hetzner API apart from other DDNS providers is that it requires special headers, for instance the authentication token. Most others use URL parameters, meaning you can't use Hetzner on ddns-scripts out-of-the-box.

However, the scripts can be customised, and an example is given here. At some point, it would be good to implement something like this so that OpenWRT users have a more 'native' solution compared to running a script in Cron.