Is the code for this available? I've been looking for something like it for a while.

It will be soon .. Keep an eye on :

• https://github.com/skx/dhcp.io

Pre-Warning: I use Perl, CGI::Application, Redis, and Route53.

There was that report about Skype logging URIs shared in private conversations, then subsequently crawling them from a Microsoft IP address. (Even HTTPS URIs).

I think there's a major UK ISP doing something similar as part of an on-by-default 'parental control' 'feature'.

So you may want to be wary of the secret URI being hit by something unintended.

I also suggest the IP be given by ?ip= or ?ipv4=, in case you might want to send other parameters besides the IP address later on, then still be able to do it in a single query.

If visiting a URI performs some action, I think it rather be an HTTP POST (curl -d '' 'http://...'. In that case the parameters could be sent as POST data rather than as a query string.

A future parameter could even be some kind of time-based digital signature to authenticate the request.

Thanks for the feedback, Steven.

For the moment you can do POST:

curl -v -X POST curl http://dhcp.io/set --data 'token=95508c00-f3f0-11e3-8e54-00163e0816a2&ip=22.33.22.22'

I will document that, and think about the parameter handling.

Spiffy!
I was personally thinking dns by git would also be fairly cool, though it's been done a few times prior: Nothing amazon based yet.

Of all the existing DNS-as-service companies out there I think that LuaDNS is one of the most interesting - since it combines hosting and scripting in a way that I like, and also has Git backing.

That said I think there is probably room for another entrant, and with Route53 in the back-end scalability wouldn't be a concern.

The hard part is a) doing the thing b) persuading people to pay.

Which is where I stop!

Just a little FYI: NSUpdate (https://nsupdate.info/) already provides IPv4 & IPv6 DynDNS, implementing the original DynDNS.org-API to be compatible with a wide range of existing update clients. It's based on Python and Django and currently "only" implements BIND's dynamic update protocol (aka RFC 2136, also implemented by PowerDNS and MS-DNS).