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The Perpetual Amateur · Mar 18, 2017

Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare

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It is hard to maintain a regular internet uptime with home connections. 1/2 router re-connections per week can be fairly common. When that happens, the public IP changes with most ISPs. This can be annoying if you want access your computer remotely (possibly to SSH home). Dynamic DNS is a solution that exists to solve just that. I maintain DNS entries for my domain at Clouflare . The latest…

It is hard to maintain a regular internet uptime with home connections. 1/2 router re-connections per week can be fairly common. When that happens, the public IP changes with most ISPs. This can be annoying if you want access your computer remotely (possibly to SSH home). Dynamic DNS is a solution that exists to solve just that.

I maintain DNS entries for my domain at Clouflare. The latest version of ddclient supports Cloudflare API, which works well with my ArchLinux box. But ddclient bundled with Raspbian, is yet to get that update. Cloudflare’s API is fairly straight forward, so I decided to use a curl/systemd based solution on my RaspberryPi.

Read on /cloudflare-ddns/

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