Dynamic DNS for Amazon Route53, using cli53 and remote OpenDNS resolver

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#!/bin/bash

# Original author: https://gist.github.com/PaulMaddox/9210543
# Requires cli53 to be installed
# https://github.com/barnybug/cli53

DNS_NAME="home";
DNS_ZONE="example.com";

# not needed, we have a ~/.boto file
#export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
#export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
export BOTO_CONFIG=/home/ubuntu/.boto


NS=$(dig +short NS $DNS_ZONE | head -1)
DNS=$(dig @$NS +short ${DNS_NAME}.${DNS_ZONE});
IP=$(dig +short @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com);

if [ "$IP" != "$DNS" ]; then
    echo "Update required: Our IP is $IP but our DNS record points to $DNS";
    cli53 rrcreate --replace $DNS_ZONE "$DNS_NAME 60 A $IP" # updated syntax for latest cli53
else
    echo "No update required";
    exit 0;
fi