How to set up ddns for cloudflare

[SSTwo]

Hello everyone

Sorry, my English is not good, I use machine translation.

I did not find the provider of cloudflare in the built-in ddns service of the system.

I tried to install ddclient using apt, but all this will be lost after the system update.
I tried to use docker to run ddclient, but I could not get the network card information.

Does anyone recommend a good way to achieve my goal?

 

[jgreco]

TrueNAS is an appliance, and you are not supposed to be trying to install things with "apt" or anything else.

CloudFlare is generally used for public Internet hosting purposes, and is not a particularly obvious choice for DDNS services. You could either pick a supported DDNS option, or file a bug report asking for CloudFlare to be added.

 

[k0stya]

Hello everyone

Sorry, my English is not good, I use machine translation.

I did not find the provider of cloudflare in the built-in ddns service of the system.

I tried to install ddclient using apt, but all this will be lost after the system update.
I tried to use docker to run ddclient, but I could not get the network card information.

Does anyone recommend a good way to achieve my goal?

Exactly the same problem! There seems to be a solution via GitHub docker(oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns). But I don't understand how to configure it to work.

 

[Tronix117]

Since, the only available providers for certificate authenticator are CloudFlare and Route53, it makes a lot of sense to have both of them as DynDNS providers...

 

[BoomShaka]

The way I've implemented this is by having a "scripts" dataset in which I have various folders which hold bash scripts. Then I set up a cron job through the GUI to run the scripts.

Specifically for this use case, I've downloaded the contents of this github to "path to scripts"/scripts/ddns-updater/ , then tweaked the config file and then made a cron job with the command bash "path to scripts"/scripts/ddns-updater/update-cloudflare-dns.sh. Then I have this running every hour just so it doesn't run too often. This method has persisted through a system update since it's completely through the GUI so that the system doesn't get mad at you. For reference this has been running fine on my system for over 3 months.

*Truecharts also seems to have a DDNS app that may help you but it have not checked that out personally yet.

 

[k0stya]

Here's a link to the discord chat room. They helped me solve the problem here.

DDNS

 

[jonasd]

Since, the only available providers for certificate authenticator are CloudFlare and Route53, it makes a lot of sense to have both of them as DynDNS providers...

I was thinking the same thing...
The reason behind it is that I want all my devices under a topological network, where some would be exposed publicly (including one for TNS).

Given that I already had to provide credentials suitable to do such an update, I expected it to be baked in.
Will file a bug report if it didn't happen yet

 

[stavros-k]

This should help once it's merged and released :)

Add cloudflare DDNS provider by jlsjonas · Pull Request #9138 · truenas/middleware

Based on https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn/blob/master/examples/cloudflare-ipv4-only.conf Note: Supported on inadyn 2.9.x (9 dev 2021), couldn't see the version used anywhere in the repo, please ...

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