I’m finally moving my selfhosting experiments from a VPS to a physical machine in my house but, since I don’t have a static IP address, I opted to use the dynamic dns service offered by Cloudflare.

On their official website I’ve seen suggested ddclient but I haven’t find that much information on which labels should I add to set it up. Therefore, I’ve also found this docker image that seems pretty clean and easy to set up, but the video talking about it was of 3 years ago and I’ve seen that the github repository has been archived last year…

Which option (not necessarily among the two above) do you prefer to set up your Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare? (I don’t know if this can be an important information to add or not, but the Linux server I’m using is running NixOS)

  • chiisanaEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    but I haven’t find that much information on which labels should I add to set it up.

    I’ve not automated creation of records for new services, but I’ve made it easier for myself by making hostname.domain.ext the dynamic DNS (managed by a simple cron job with curl commands interacting with the API), and all service.domain.ext just CNAME to the main record.

    I don’t think I’ll be automating the creation of the CNAME records because something tells me I’d end up leaving a bunch of dead service DNS records behind.

    • @shaked_coffeeOPEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      I think that this could be the cleanest solution, could you share the curl command you used to interact with the API? (Of course replacing your actual access token with ** etc.)