Cloudflare DDNS

If you don't have a static IP, DDNS can save you by keeping a domain name pointing to your IP address even if IP address constantly updates.

Methods

TrueNAS Scale + Truecharts Cloudflare DDNS

Read

• https://truecharts.org/charts/stable/cloudflareddns/setup-guide/
• https://hotio.dev/containers/cloudflareddns/

The 2 documents should be enough to get it running, while there may be a little bit confusion on parameter naming.

Under Cloudflareddns Configuration,

• CF API Key: the Global API Key you can get from "Cloudflare -> My Profile -> API Tokens -> API Keys -> GLobal API Key"
  • You can also choose to create token on the same page following the Charts tutorial
• CF User: Cloudflare email
• CF API Token: See Charts Doc, generate a zone-specific token
• CF API Token Zone: Go to the zone (base domain) Get the Zone ID from right hand side (API/Zone ID)
• In Hosts, Zones and Record Types, click Add
  • Domain is the the domain name you want to use
  • Zone is the base domain
    • If domain is a.example.com then Zone is example.com
  • Record Type: Use A if you have IPV4 and AAAA fpr IPV6