r53-ddns

Brief

this was intended to solve the problem for when your local ISP force renews your PublicIP and no one can reach your might-as-well-be-a-toaster-minecraft server.

what this ended up as was a mockery of dynamic dns, progam/scripting, error handling, all in memory-safe rust. whatever that means, right?

"this is the worst of example working code ive ever seen" // "ah but you have seen the code working" -- cpt. rskntroot 2024

Assumptions

Your ISP randomly changes your PublicIP and that pisses you off.
You have no idea how DDNS is actually supposed to work.
- dns is all smoke and mirrors, confirmed.
You just want something that will curl ipv4.icanhazip.com and push and update to Route53.
You plan on handjamming this into a cron job on your webserver/loadbalancer.
...
Profit.

Congratulations, this is the package for you.

Setup

use out of below command to create AWS IAM Policy.

zone_id=<zone_id> envsubst < AllowRoute53RecordUpdate.policy

create IAM user, generate access keys for automated service
login on the machine where you built this binary
```
aws sso login --profile
```
setup a cron job to poll at your leisure

Usage

$ r53-ddns -h
A CLI tool for correcting drift between your PublicIP and Route53 DNS A RECORD

Usage: r53-ddns --zone-id <ZONE_ID> --domain-name <DOMAIN_NAME>

Options:
  -z, --zone-id <ZONE_ID>          DNS ZONE ID  (see AWS Console Route53)
  -d, --domain-name <DOMAIN_NAME>  DOMAIN NAME  (ex. 'docs.rskio.com.')
  -h, --help                       Print help

Drift Detected

$ r53-ddns -z ${aws_dns_zone_id} -d smp.rskio.com.

The dynamic IP provided by the ISP has drifted. 10.0.11.201 -> 10.0.88.219
Requested DNS record update to PublicIP: 10.0.88.219
Change ID: /change/C04224022UE1ZQA26RE7O, Status: Pending
Change ID: /change/C04224022UE1ZQA26RE7O, Status: Insync
The change request has been completed.

No Drift Detected

$ r53-ddns -z  ${aws_dns_zone_id} -d example.com.

The DNS record is currently up to date with the public IP: 10.0.88.219

Q&A

Why are you doing AWS calls instead of us nslookup and compare that?

Why in the world would internal DNS give me a PublicIP? Imagine not implementing internal DNS.

Why did you do create this monster?

To prove to myself that with the help of LLMs that even I could go from 0 to deployed tokio async rust binary in less than 8 hours. And thats exactly what I did.

wen IPv6?

Stfu, John. How about, wen PR?

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