CLOUDFLARE AND DDCLIENT
(Posted 2014-10-07 13:58:31 by corey_reichle)

Getting Cloudflare working with DDClient was a bit of a head scratcher for
a bit. Couldn't figure out what the heck was going wrong, until I actually
started reading the output of the debug, and noted a "zone=" is not a fully
qualified domain name...
Hrm... At first I thought it was talking about the records I was updating.
Sure one of them wasn't, but another was. Then, for a random stab, I
thought,"Zone, Zone file... OH! The root zone name!"
Sure enough, added that to the ddclient.conf file, and viola(sp)! It
worked!
Cloudflare looks to be a pretty good replacement for dyndns. Hell, it's
better than a good replacement, I wish I learned about this service being
free a *long* time ago.
Install ddclient like this (Enter whatever you want at the prompts, we're
over-writing the config file later manually):


sudo apt-get install ddclient


Then, get the patch from:
http://blog.peter-r.co.uk/cloudflare-ddclient-patch-update.html [
http://blog.peter-r.co.uk/cloudflare-ddclient-patch-update.html ]
Patch your ddclient...


sudo patch /usr/sbin/ddclient ddclient.patch


Below is a sample ddclient.conf file:


pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo cat /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=300                              # check every 300 seconds
syslog=yes                              # log update msgs to syslog
mail=root                               # mail all msgs to root
mail-failure=root                       # mail failed update msgs to root
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid               # record PID in file.
ssl=yes                                 # use ssl-support.  Works with
                                       # ssl-library

use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com/, web-skip='IP Address'
cache=/tmp/ddclient.cache

#
## CloudFlare (cloudflare.com)
##
protocol=cloudflare,
server=www.cloudflare.com,
zone=example.com,
[email protected]
password=b035ef124fa345ef324883bed338d8b9088e9
ftp.example.com,
example.com,

pi@raspberrypi ~ $


Now, test it out:


sudo ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet


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