update53 - DynDNS with Amazon Route53

This version allow you to update your Amazon Route53 record by your current public ip (from ipinfo.io web service)

Features:

• Update Amazon Route53 DNS Record with your current public IP (Useful for home ISP with non-static IP address)
• Optional - Send SNS Notification when your ip change
• Optional - Update the bucket policy of a S3 bucket to only authorize access to this bucket from your public IP (Useful for private static web hosting)

Requirements

• AWS SDK for Python - boto3 sudo pip install boto3
• IAM Role attached to your EC2 instance or IAM User with AccessKey/SecretKey
• SNS Topic (Alerting purpose)
• Run aws configure to setup at least the region and your AK/SK

Installation

• Create your Amazon Route 53 Zone first, then create your DNS A Record to update (home.example.com)

• Configure your server with AWS CLI : aws configure with your AccessKey and SecretKey

    $ git clone https://github.com/z0ph/update53-pub.git
    $ cd update53-pub/python/
    $ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  

Usage

    $ python3 update53.py [YOUR_HOSTED_ZONE_ID] [YOUR_DNS]

Optional

• Use this option to change your bucket policy to only allow your new IP: "Action": "s3:GetObject" -b [YOUR_BUCKET_NAME]
• Setup your sns_topic

Example of the Bucket Policy

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AddPerm",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": "*",
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::draft.zoph.me/*",
      "Condition": {
        "IpAddress": {
          "aws:SourceIp": ["130.211.YY.XXX/32"]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example with only Route53

Run python3 update53.py ZLJT68NZ2IYSF home.example.com

Example with S3 Bucket

Run python3 update53.py ZLJT68NZ2IYSF home.example.com -b privatewebsite.example.com

Automation

• Schedule this script with cron to update record on a daily basis for example.
• crontab -e to schedule your job :

0 * * * * python3 /home/user/update53-pub/python/update53.py ZLJT68NZ2IYSF home.example.com

Credits

Adaptation from:

• Lambros Petrou