ddns-cloudflare

This is a self-hosted DDNS service for receiving public IP updates from a router or other local source and updating a DNS record in Cloudflare.

Container images are based on Alpine Linux and are available for these platforms:

• linux/amd64
• linux/arm64
• linux/arm/v6
• linux/arm/v7

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The primary purposes for building yet another DDNS tool for updating Cloudflare records:

• Many other solutions depend upon using a Global API token which is unacceptable for this singular purpose. This solution allows the use of a API token scoped with privileges to edit a single DNS zone.
  • Unfortunately Cloudflare does not allow limiting the edit privileges to a single DNS record in a zone at this point.
• Self-hosted option for receiving DDNS updates from a router or other local source rather than depending on an external service for detecting public IP address changes

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Valid response codes were gathered from here:
https://help.dyn.com/remote-access-api
https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn/blob/master/plugins/common.c

How to send DDNS Updates to this Application

Example information that will be used below:

• Cloudflare Record to Update: home.example.com
• Cloudflare API token (scoped to a single DNS Zone!): supersecretapitoken
• Username for the ddns-cloudflare service: ddns-user
• Password for the ddns-cloudflare service: ddns-password
• Server running the ddns-cloudflare service: ddns.example.com:8080
  • Port 8080 can be dropped by running the application behind a reverse proxy

Sending updates from a router (Using a Unifi Dream Machine as an example)

• Service: dyndns
• Hostname: home.example.com
• Username: ddns-user
• Password: ddns-password
• Server: ddns.example.com:8080/nic/update?hostname=%h&myip=%i

Manual updates can be sent to this service with a GET request in the following format:

curl "http://ddns-user:[email protected]:8080/nic/update?hostname=home.example.com&myip=0.0.0.0"

Deployment with Docker Compose (Recommended)

Note: The application requires authentication to be configure via the AUTH_USER and AUTH_PASS environment variables. Without those set, the app will fail to start successfully which is intentional.

Example docker-compose.yml file

services:
  ddns-cloudflare:
    container_name: ddns-cloudflare
    # Using 'latest' as an example. specifying a specific version is preferred
    image: ghcr.io/clayoster/ddns-cloudflare:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      # Username for authenticating to the ddns service
      - AUTH_USER=ddns-user
      # Password for authenticating to the ddns service
      - AUTH_PASS=ddns-password
      # Your CloudFlare API token with access to the necessary DNS Zone
      - API_TOKEN=supersecretapitoken
    ports:
        - "8080:8080"

Additional recommendations:

• Only run this container on an internal network and not exposed to the internet
• Run this behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS configured to keep requests encrypted

To-Dos

• Make "hostname" compatible with accepting up to 20 comma-delimited domain names
• Upgrade python-cloudflare dependency to version 3 and complete corresponding rewrite