There seem to be few DDNS services but either they are paid or they have quite a lot of restrictions, so using this simple guide you can automatically/dynamically change the IP address of a domain on cloudflare.
Now log into your cloudflare account and go to My profile -->API Tokens -->Global API Key, then copy the Key after entering your cloudflare's password, we will be needing it soon.
I ran this on my raspberry Pi 4, works pretty well
Now, for example my website is google.com (Zone) and my cloudflare's registered E-mail address is rehan@gmail.com and i want to change IP address of google.com and www.google.com from that Zone , this will be the config file
Now, check if everything is working perfectly by running
If it shows Success and that it was able to change the IP address of the domain/s then continue to run this task at particular time interval, in my case it's 10 minutes
type 1 and press enter if promoted, then paste this at the end of file (every 10 minute)
To run it every minute code would be
Now log into your cloudflare account and go to My profile -->API Tokens -->Global API Key, then copy the Key after entering your cloudflare's password, we will be needing it soon.
I ran this on my raspberry Pi 4, works pretty well
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install perl libdata-validate-ip-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl git-core
git clone https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient.git
sudo cp -f ddclient/ddclient /usr/sbin/
sudo chmod 700 /usr/sbin/ddclient
sudo mkdir /var/cache/ddclient/
sudo touch /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache
sudo mkdir /etc/ddclient/Now, for example my website is google.com (Zone) and my cloudflare's registered E-mail address is rehan@gmail.com and i want to change IP address of google.com and www.google.com from that Zone , this will be the config file
Code:
sudo nano /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf
Code:
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address'
daemon=600
syslog=yes
ssl=yes
protocol=cloudflare,
zone=google.com,
login=rehan@gmail.com,
password='Global API Key'
google.com, www.google.comNow, check if everything is working perfectly by running
Code:
sudo ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet
Code:
crontab -e
Code:
*/10 * * * * /usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon=0
Code:
* * * * * /usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon=0
