This post details my switch over to using Powershell and Cloudflare to update a DNS record to a server’s current IP. This effectively emulates dyndns for this host – except it’s free.
There are a load of other options out there, which even include some simple-but-quite-clunky apps for domain registrars like NameCheap; but installing third party software is not the route I want to take.
I previously had my target domain (let’s call it targetdomain.com) hosted on a Linux box, and used SSH to update the DNS settings via a Windows server. This worked well for three years without a blip – but was clunky. I was using a scheduled task to start a bat file, which then ran Putty to run the shell script…to update a config on a server which was only hosting the domain to serve this purpose.
I’ve been using Cloudflare for years, and set aside time to write a script to use their service for this purpose. As it turns out, people have done this for years – so I’ve taken one off the shelf.
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