Don’t bother reading the whole article – I’ll sum it up for you in a few simple steps:
- Enable port forwarding on your home router. You need to route port 80 outside to port 80 on your local server inside (if you want to use https -> Port 443)
- Buy a domain – search for cheap offers, but keep in mind that the domain register service needs to offer the option to add any DNS-server for name resolving your domain.
- Register at cloudflare, add your domain, chose the free plan and make cloudflare scan your domain DNS entries.
- Go back to your name register service (e.g. GoDaddy or Ionos) and add the cloudflare DNS servers as custom nameservers to your domain management console
wally.ns.cloudflare.com
oswald.ns.cloudflare.com
- Get your cloudflare API key in cloudflare: Overview > Get your API key > Global API Key
- Create a bash script on your local server, where you want to update your IP from and change the email, api-key, zone_record and record_name in the header of the script:
#!/bin/bash
# CHANGE THESE
auth_email="[email protected]"
auth_key="yourCloudFlareAPIKey"
zone_name="aboe.eu"
record_name="aboe.eu"
ip=$(curl -s http://ipv4.icanhazip.com)
echo $ip
ip_file="ip.txt"
id_file="cloudflare.ids"
log_file="cloudflare.log"
# LOGGER
log() {
if [ "$1" ]; then
echo -e "[$(date)] - $1" >> $log_file
fi
}
# SCRIPT START
log "Check Initiated"
if [ -f $ip_file ]; then
old_ip=$(cat $ip_file)
if [ $ip == $old_ip ]; then
echo "IP has not changed."
exit 0
fi
fi
if [ -f $id_file ] && [ $(wc -l $id_file | cut -d " " -f 1) == 2 ]; then
zone_identifier=$(head -1 $id_file)
record_identifier=$(tail -1 $id_file)
else
zone_identifier=$(curl -s -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones?name=$zone_name" -H "X-Auth-Email: $auth_email" -H "X-Auth-Key: $auth_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | grep -Po '(?<="id":")[^"]*' | head -1 )
record_identifier=$(curl -s -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$zone_identifier/dns_records?name=$record_name" -H "X-Auth-Email: $auth_email" -H "X-Auth-Key: $auth_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | grep -Po '(?<="id":")[^"]*')
echo "$zone_identifier" > $id_file
echo "$record_identifier" >> $id_file
fi
update=$(curl -s -X PUT "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$zone_identifier/dns_records/$record_identifier" -H "X-Auth-Email: $auth_email" -H "X-Auth-Key: $auth_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"id\":\"$zone_identifier\",\"type\":\"A\",\"name\":\"$record_name\",\"content\":\"$ip\"}")
if [[ $update == *"\"success\":false"* ]]; then
message="API UPDATE FAILED. DUMPING RESULTS:\n$update"
log "$message"
echo -e "$message"
exit 1
else
message="IP changed to: $ip"
echo "$ip" > $ip_file
log "$message"
echo "$message"
fi
- Make the script executable and add it to the crontab
chmod +x updateIpCloudflare.sh
crontab -e
*/10 * * * * /home/pi/updateIpCloudflare.sh > /dev/null 2>&1