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I used ddclient with Cloudflare for years with no issues. Recently upgraded my home router and the manufacturer operates a free dynamic dns service enabled with a toggle button. I have a cname record in my domain’s dns records pointing to the dynamic dns entry. I actually don’t even need that anymore. All the services I run at home are only for immediate family so only available remotely via a Wireguard vpn connectio…
Also, if running a home server you’d want that 5min wait time brought down to something like 1 minute.
If you too are tired of relying on outdated software from paid services like NoIP and DynDNS, and are in need for a reliable way to manage your home server with your own domain name, try this simple script with a free Cloudflare account. It just gets the job done...
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Hello author, there's no need to restart cron, crontab -e applies changes automatically on exit. And the daemon is called "cron", not "cronjobs".
Instead of using DDNS, I have been using Cloudflare tunnels to expose my home services to the internet. The setup is much simpler and it seems like it's more secure too You specify a port and point it to a subdomain and it just immediately works, no maintenance necessary. The daemon only needs to be installed once with a simple terminal command
There are some limitations such as: – TLS termination mandatorily happens at Cloudflare (i.e. your traffic is mitm'ed). That's because this free product is meant as a gateway drug (aka a loss leader) to Cloudflare's WAF/Anti-DDOS products (which require TLS termination to happen on their side for technical reasons). – Other TCP protocols (including SSH) require every client to run the software too. So if you were thi…
FWIW, I have been using it with Plex (just two users, me and my parents) and haven't gotten banned. The ToS are kind of unclear on whether this is allowed if I have to be honest.
Seems to rely on https://api.ipify.org/ to determine public IP. Is there any Cloudflare service one can use to determine the IP instead? That way there’s not an extra company in addition to Cloudflare itself that you need to continue existing.
https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace will return your ip.
Pick your poison as you wish - either is great! :-)
Seems to rely on https://api.ipify.org/ to determine public IP. Is there any Cloudflare service one can use to determine the IP instead? That way there’s not an extra company in addition to Cloudflare itself that you need to continue existing.
In my experience, you have to be careful if relying on one IP source because if they give you the wrong one, then your servers could be MITM’d. I say this because I have a script which does this exact thing, and found a couple of these ‘what’s my ip’ services giving me someone else’s IP. Because of that, I randomly select a few IP addresses and ensure they are identical before I trust any of them.
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I feel like it's worth mentioning icanhazip.com [0] as well, since it's now run by Cloudflare [1]. Until recently switching to a custom CF worker, that's been by go-to for ages. [0]: https://www.icanhazip.com/ [1]: https://major.io/p/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/
Does Cloudflare have a history of sunsetting products they've bought? Acquisitions by Google, Apple, Meta, etc. are yellow flags that the product may cease to exist soon. I wonder if Cloudflare has a better track record in that regard.
I’m in the middle of transferring all my domains from Squarespace thanks to Googles sale of that business to that incredibly lousy vendor.
I used ddclient with Cloudflare for years with no issues. Recently upgraded my home router and the manufacturer operates a free dynamic dns service enabled with a toggle button. I have a cname record in my domain’s dns records pointing to the dynamic dns entry. I actually don’t even need that anymore. All the services I run at home are only for immediate family so only available remotely via a Wireguard vpn connectio…
Mikrotik at least has that DDNS functionality. It is really nice feature.
It also runs AdGuard Home so that is another thing I have been able to remove from my home server.
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There are some limitations such as: – TLS termination mandatorily happens at Cloudflare (i.e. your traffic is mitm'ed). That's because this free product is meant as a gateway drug (aka a loss leader) to Cloudflare's WAF/Anti-DDOS products (which require TLS termination to happen on their side for technical reasons). – Other TCP protocols (including SSH) require every client to run the software too. So if you were thi…
Some good points, thanks. FWIW, I have been using it with Plex (just two users, me and my parents) and haven't gotten banned. The ToS are kind of unclear on whether this is allowed if I have to be honest.