I am following a guide on how to set up nextcloud on my TrueNAS SCALE system. The step I am on right now requires me to have set up the DNS records of my domain to point to my server, and since I don’t have a permanent public IP, I need to set up a Dynamic DNS method.
From what I have been able to understand, Cloudflare doesn’t really have support for DDNS, instead offering some hacky workarounds such as third-party clients or creating a script to make calls to their API to edit the domain’s DNS records on every call.
I cannot change my domain from Cloudflare to a different service, as my domain initially had its DNS handled by Namecheap (also the registrar I have bought the domain from.) I had to switch from Namecheap to Cloudflare because I need a valid SSL certificate for my domain, and Cloudflare makes that much simpler by just issuing an automatic one when a domain is on their DNS.
Apparently, there was an app in the Truecharts catalog called cloudflare-ddns that served this exact purpose. But obviously, with 20.10 Truecharts is basically gone and I cannot use that Kubernetes-based application anymore.
I’ve also tried using ddns-updater which is on the official TrueNAS app catalog but with no luck. As soon as I finish entering all the parameters and press install, the status shows ‘deploying’ for a couple of seconds and immediately stops. There is no real error message printed to the system console, either.
I enter my ddns-updater parameters like this:
Provider - Cloudflare
Domain - nextcloud.mydomain.tld (there is no type A+ DDNS record in my records as Cloudflare does not support that)
Host - EMPTY
IP Version - IPv4 and IPv6
Zone ID - [the zone ID in my domain overview]
TTL - 1
Proxied - Enabled
Token - EMPTY (not sure what to put here)
User Service Key - [the account ID in my domain overview]
Email - [the email of my Cloudflare account]
API Key - [an API key I generate for my account for the Edit Zone DNS function for my domain. verified working with curl]
Am I doing something wrong? I suspect that I am.
How should I go about setting up DDNS on my Cloudflare domain and making it point to my server? Should I use ddns-updater with a different configuration of parameters? Should I set up some sort of script on my server how Cloudflare wants it? (I’m not sure how to do that)
I am a noob when it comes to TrueNAS and I am now realizing that this project is a bit beyond my depth for a first endeavor. I’m intending to struggle through it, though.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated:) Thanks!