Add support for AWS Route53

[gsmlg]

Add support for AWS Route53

[fastalan]

There is a OpnSense plugin called dyndns that does this, the working code can be found here: https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/dns/dyndns/src/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/dyndns/phpDynDNS.inc

Just need someone to port his over, as that dyndns is about to be disabled.

[karlshea]

The issue is that dyndns uses a Route53 helper class that's like 700 lines of API request code.

That class probably does way more than it really needs to, but it's not as simple as just hitting a URL.

[fastalan]

The issue is that dyndns uses a Route53 helper class that's like 700 lines of API request code.

That class probably does way more than it really needs to, but it's not as simple as just hitting a URL.

Can’t we just use a perl module to do the same like this one?

https://metacpan.org/pod/Paws::Route53

[karlshea]

Is requiring another perl module acceptable to the maintainers? (paging @SuperSandro2000)

[SuperSandro2000]

If we make it optional, sure why not. Less code to maintain in ddclient.

[karlshea]

I don't know Perl well enough to know if that's possible 😂

[SuperSandro2000]

I think you can load perl modules further down the code conditional which makes them optional. We should already be doing that somewhere.

[karlshea]

That package is insane... It's not just Paws::Route53, you have to use all of Paws which is some Perl AWS API monstrosity that isn't yet stable. I can't even tell from their docs how to configure it with an API key.

It would probably make more sense to write a helper that just updates zones, but as you can see in the helper function I linked above there's all sorts of XML conversion and signing that's going on, and I just don't know Perl well enough to dive in especially since my IP really doesn't change, so I'll just update zones myself whenever the old plugin stops working in OPNsense.

Gonna bow out of this one, sorry!

[fastalan]

This example seem much lighter, but is very old
https://github.com/mfontani/Net-Amazon-Route53

[g-psantos]

@SuperSandro2000 Pinging you in case you closed this by mistake: I couldn't find any PRs or commits to master indicating that support for Route 53 was implemented.

[karlshea]

It won't be, see #528

[SuperSandro2000]

Unless someone creates a PR for it, it will not happen.

[issmirnov]

@LenardHess I saw on #528 (comment) that you have taken ownership - thank you!

Is there a chance of this Feature Request being re-opened? I unfortunately don't have the cycles to help with coding this up, but would be very happy to beta test and post logs + debug as needed.

Thank you!

[LenardHess]

I'll reopen it with 'help-wanted', but will probably not tackle it too quickly if at all. For now I want to get maintenance stabilized, new releases out etc.

[shafferchance-lulu]

Hey, I started work on this issue Friday (9/08/23). I got the signature working without anything outside of the core Perl modules. Going to get the other logic finished up here and make a PR within the next two days. Formulating the signature isn't too bad, however, I don't program in Perl really so please provide me with some guidance once things are posted.

[shafferchance]

Only like 4 months late, but better late than never got caught up with real life. Thank you all for the support.