Python Dynamic IP Server
This is a small cgi-bin script I use to get IP adresses from IOT devices that sit in a DHCP environment.
Warning
This isn't for production use and for a high number of devices. This is not updating a DNS server, there are many services out there that do this already. It basically just sends you an e-mail every time the device sends a new IP address.
Installation
- Enable cgi-bin in your favorite webserver
- change the placeholders to sensible values
- place the script in the cgi-bin directory under your favorite name
Usage
- The script mimics the behavior of existing Dynamic DNS servers, so if your iot device has a client for dynamic dns, you can point it to this script. This works with ip cameras, routers, OpenWRT devices etc.
- if you don't have a pre-installed client, you can probably install one, there are many versions available for various OS environments and in various programming languages
- you can also just call the URL from your own code, it is :
https://<your-server-name>/cgi-bin/dynamicip.py?ip=<ipaddr>&user=<username>&pass=<pass>&host=<domain>