I asked my ISP to remove my fixed IP address as there is a firmware bug on their supplied router that makes it incompatible with fast broadband. Instead of getting the 200Mbps I am paying for I was getting 20-50Mbps.
This left me with a problem, how do I address my network now? I didn't particularly want to sign up to DynDNS or equivalents. I've got an Azure subscription, so can I do anything with that?
This post gives a beautifully elegant solution. Create an Azure DNS zone for your domain. Create an Azure Function that exposes a HTTP API. Use this function to update the DNS record by PowerShell.
Expose the API and call it regularly (by a scheduled task on a Raspberry PI for example).
Notes:
When I ran the function for the first time it wouldn't work and errored with a 401. On running the PowerShell line-by-line I noticed the Azure login was erroring with AADSTS50055: Force Change Password.
Logging in with the newly-created Azure AD account required an interactive login so that the password could be changed. I solved this by navigating to the Azure portal, logging in as the AD user I created for the DNS Contributor role, changing the password and then updating the Function password variable to match the new password.
You can run the updater on a low-power Raspberry PI with the following commands:
curl ifconfig.me
curl "https://<your function app>.azurewebsites.net/api/<your function name>?code=<your function key>&ipaddr=<ip address determined>"
and piping the two commands together you can update the IP address from one shell command:
curl -s ifconfig.me 2>&1 | curl "https://<your function app>.azurewebsites.net/api/<your function name>?code=<your function key>&ipaddr=$(cat -)"
That command can be scheduled to run with crontab, according to your preference.
PS - Another option worth considering is not even needing to specify the IP address to the Web service exposed by the Azure Function. Can it get the referrer's IP address automatically?
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