loopia-update-ip 0.5.1

Application to keep DNS records updated when external IP-address change using the Loopia-API for the domain provider Loopia

Loopia update ip

Utility to keep your domains pointing to the current external IP-adress using the Loopia-API to update your adresses.

Required privileges for API-key in the LoopiaAPI control panel

Required privileges:

• addSubdomain
• removeZoneRecord
• updateZoneRecord
• addZoneRecord
• getSubdomains
• getZoneRecords
• removeSubdomain

Python module usage

In default mode the external IP-adress will be fetched from internet and applied to the full domain name with ttl=3600

loopia-update-ip --username xyz@loopiaapi --password YourToken --domain www.mydomain.com

To set a specific IP-address and not resolve from internet

loopia-update-ip --username xyz@loopiaapi --password YourToken --domain www.mydomain.com  --ip 123.123.123.123

To start the service to continuously monitor if the external IP-address changes

loopia-update-ip-service --username xyz@loopiaapi --password YourToken --domain www.mydomain.com

Preferred usage

The preferred way to run this service is a Docker container with the configuration provided as a docker-compose file.

Create the following file structure

loopia-update-ip
   ├──\ config
   │    ├── config.yaml
   ├──\ logs
   ├── docker-compose.yaml

Docker compose file: docker-compose.yaml

version: '3.8'

services:
  ftp:
    image: registry.gitlab.com/niklasme/loopia-update-ip
    container_name: loopia-update-ip
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./logs:/logs
    restart: unless-stopped

Service configuration file: config.yaml

credentials:
    loopia_username: xyz@loopiaapi
    loopia_password: abc
domains:
  'mydomain.com':
    sub_domains:
      - www
      - video
    ttl: 3600

Start Docker container service

docker compose up

Verify that no errors are thrown and that your credentials are accepted. Press Ctrl-C to stop the service and relaunch in detached mode.

docker compose up -d

You can always check logs in the output file:

cat ./logs/loopia_update_ip.log

or by ouputing the logs from the Docker container

#> docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                           COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS                 PORTS                                                                                      NAMES  
fc1a6ff4debd   registry.gitlab.com/niklasme/loopia-update-ip   "loopia-update-ip-se…"   10 minutes ago   Up 9 minutes                                                                                                      loopia-update-ip

#> docker logs fc1a6ff4debd

Example of log output:

 Starting service
 Logging to: /logs/loopia_update_ip.log
 Docker configuration file found!
 Domain: www.mydomain.com: Zone record 123.123.123.123 - External IP 123.123.123.123
	 No update required!
 Domain: video.mydomain.com: Zone record 123.123.123.123 - External IP 123.123.123.123
	 No update required!
 Domain: ftp.mydomain.com: Zone record 123.123.123.123 - External IP 123.123.123.123
	 No update required!
 Domain: docs.mydomain.com: Zone record 213.213.213.213 - External IP 123.123.123.123

 Updating zone record to 123.123.123.123 for docs.mydomain.com
 Domain: security.mydomain.com: Zone record 123.123.123.123 - External IP 123.123.123.123
	 No update required!
2024-03-30 17:14:37,637 - root - INFO - External IP-address is still 123.123.123.123
2024-03-30 17:14:55,707 - root - INFO - External IP-address is still 123.123.123.123
2024-03-30 17:15:13,765 - root - INFO - External IP-address is still 123.123.123.123

Development only

Build Docker image locally

docker build -t loopia-update-ip
docker compose up