Automatic dynamic DNS updater using EdgeRouter / EdgeOS and Internet.bs

EdgeOS already supports Python (as of 1.10.9), so let’s write a short Python script. Replace with your username, password and domain on line 13 in the script.

import urllib2
import datetime
import os

print 'IP Updater - ' + datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()

f = os.popen('/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet\ addr" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1')
ip=f.read()

print 'IP detected as: ' + ip

if(ip):
  sendOne = urllib2.urlopen('http://dyndns.topdns.com/update?hostname=my-domain.com&username=user&password=password&myip=' + ip).read()
  print sendOne

Schedule it to run recurrently:

touch /var/log/ibs-update.log
crontab -e

Add the following line:

0 * * * * python /home/ubnt/ibs-update.py >> /var/log/ibs-update.log

Note: /var/log is mounted in-memory on EdgeOS, so it’s not going to introduce wear-and-tear on the flash memory.