Sorry to ask as I know there are a lot of posts referring to DDNS here. However - in reading several of them I get different solutions and I'm not sure the right way to go. Would be great if someone could direct me to the easiest/best solution. My use case is this:
- Due to having printing connectivity problems (brother wifi printer, which I believe may or may not be due to that printer always going into a deep sleep whereas the router needs to be re-booted daily to reconnect). When I reboot - Google Fiber (WebPass) always assigns a new IP. I then need to manually go into CloudFlare and change my Domain's A record to redirect to my Nextcloud server. It is fast to do but also a PITA... ( also have an app on my phone that notifies me if my IP changes - and what that IP is...)
Steps:
1) get my daily alert from my Android app that shows my new assigned IP
2) login to Cloudflare - update my domains' A record
Checking these forums I also see some DDNS solutions - but they aren't for an external service such as Cloudflare...
... I've seen some external services such as DYNU but not sure if they fit my use-case? (if so - any links on how to setup would also be great)
I'm not quite a 'newbie' on this stuff - but not an expert either. Happy to install/implement a script (have tried in the past but struggled finding the exact parameters needed from my cloudflare account (e.g.: zone_ID, API_Token, Record_Name, Record_TTL, etc... (using the script found here: https://github.com/alphabt/asuswrt-merlin-ddns-cloudflare)
Ideally not having to implement a script would be great... but I'll do what I need to do.
I'm a little surprised that Merlin doesn't include an add-on specifically for this - I used to have it on my PFSense router - and it worked great! (I checked the Add-Ons thread and didn't find anything)
Bottom line - directing me to the latest/best thread/link so I can solve this is what I'm looking for - along with any other suggestions/tips that would be helpful.
- Due to having printing connectivity problems (brother wifi printer, which I believe may or may not be due to that printer always going into a deep sleep whereas the router needs to be re-booted daily to reconnect). When I reboot - Google Fiber (WebPass) always assigns a new IP. I then need to manually go into CloudFlare and change my Domain's A record to redirect to my Nextcloud server. It is fast to do but also a PITA... ( also have an app on my phone that notifies me if my IP changes - and what that IP is...)
Steps:
1) get my daily alert from my Android app that shows my new assigned IP
2) login to Cloudflare - update my domains' A record
Checking these forums I also see some DDNS solutions - but they aren't for an external service such as Cloudflare...
... I've seen some external services such as DYNU but not sure if they fit my use-case? (if so - any links on how to setup would also be great)
I'm not quite a 'newbie' on this stuff - but not an expert either. Happy to install/implement a script (have tried in the past but struggled finding the exact parameters needed from my cloudflare account (e.g.: zone_ID, API_Token, Record_Name, Record_TTL, etc... (using the script found here: https://github.com/alphabt/asuswrt-merlin-ddns-cloudflare)
Ideally not having to implement a script would be great... but I'll do what I need to do.
I'm a little surprised that Merlin doesn't include an add-on specifically for this - I used to have it on my PFSense router - and it worked great! (I checked the Add-Ons thread and didn't find anything)
Bottom line - directing me to the latest/best thread/link so I can solve this is what I'm looking for - along with any other suggestions/tips that would be helpful.
