Tracking your Dynamic ISP IP Address for use with your Home Server with Cloudflare DDNS & Duck DNS

This video is for beginners and anyone who wants to know how to track their internet IP address and use that for use with connecting to their home server.
This video looks at setting up both duck dns and cloudflares dyndns service. This video also briefly explains just what a static and dynamic IP address actually are
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[@robertkennedy268]

Naturally my only question from the last video was answered in this one. Thanks for all the work you put into these!

[@amateurwizard]

He's good like that haha

[@chris_5by5]

Nicely done, short, simple and to the point, got my cf ddns set up in minutes.

[@GoonerBuller]

As an Unraid newbie, I am so grateful for these videos for beginners. Thank you and keep them coming :)

[@julian.morgan]

To be honest without this channel (Ibracorp is also good but I prefer Ed's approach) my unRAID flash drive would right now be back in the drawer where it lived for a year before I found these videos!

[@zootnanny3451]

Again thanks Great Video as usual ..... Added DuckDNS from the very first one you did many moons ago, still up and running ... I followed the 1st vid in the beginners series with no probs Thanks again. Regards & Keep Safe .....

[@iBoolGuy]

Ok I'm speedrunning binge watching your videos now I don't know how I haven't found you earlier you are a god send! Thank you so much for what you do!

[@nadirnikakhtar1129]

Thanks for all your time and effort! Great tutorials always! 👏☺️

[@justangvano]

You're the best Sapceinvader! Really liking this series.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thanks Justin. Glad you are liking the series :)

[@rallygallery]

Keep ‘em coming Ed. Great video and love the series!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thanks Mark. Glad you liked it :)

[@rsuplido]

thanks for the cloudflare tutorial. duckdns goes down once in a while so hopefully cloudflare is more stable.

[@hungminhtran3837]

Thank you for the one move great video, LOVE IT

[@mellerd]

Great video as always. Thank you

[@christian2809]

that is gold, pure gold! thank you

[@chrisumali9841]

thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thanks Chris. I hope you have a great day too . Thanks for watching

[@paulholzman9876]

Great video for a total newbie. I've done everything up to this point. When is the next video coming out to show me how to use my registered domain name to access my server from any internet connection. Thanks

[@diewasserratte315]

Thank you for your help.

[@dougie730]

Love the videos. Hope you're re doing some of the old videos that have become outdated.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Yep alot of videos will be bought up to data for 2021 :)

[@GENhodgy1971]

Nice one mate!

[@strong_gaming]

I see where you left it in bridge mode but then when you refreshed it was in bro for the network which is preferred for cloud install Thanks for your videos

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

No bridge mode is correct. I only switched it to br0.10 (i didnt think people would really spot that !!) as that network runs through a vlan connected to a VPN. That way when i made the video i didnt need to then blank out IP addresses as all the address in the video are VPN ips and not my own WAN ip.

[@strong_gaming]

@@SpaceinvaderOne Thanks for that :)

[@jonathans.8650]

Super helpful! Could you please also make a Video about Mail Server and starting an own E-Mail for a Domain? Maybe with OnlyOffice Mail Server? That would be awesome!

[@APineapple03]

Love the video, greetings from the Dominican Republic, question, Do you have a video about Cloudflare with swag or any reverse proxy?

[@noose1987]

Nice unraid login page :)

[@Spoonsy1480]

Great work any chance you can do a WireGuard one as I cannot seem to get it to work

[@MrJakecornford]

I hope in the future vids you cover setting up fail2ban

[@mikedl28]

Cheers again for another helpful video, one quick question on cloudflare if my a record I create using ddns container is proxied and I use that to create a cname subdomain and set it to dns only with that resolve my public ip or the cloudflare proxied one? I want to set up a vpn subdomain for. Cheers

[@pennakira]

thank you for the video. question are all cnames created in cloudflare only and not domain provider?

[@user-fp3mn3dw7x]

I’m lucky enough to have a dhcp lease that never expires even the service was advertised as dynamic IP, it won’t change even after being offline for a few hours

[@DucNguyen-jd7hw]

Would you mind make a tutorial on how to set up a mail server? Thanks

[@iBoolGuy]

Question!! Does this step suffice for (is good instead of) creating a DDNS inside my router? I don't understand I think what is going on still..

[@DeepRacerGamer]

Hi, two tips: 1) On minute 11:40 you must select "Cloudflare Proxy = false" because if you leave it enable the proxy will be enable every time as the ip it's updated and the setting on minute 13:32 will be lost. 2) Change the TTL for "dynamic" A record to "2 minutes" for faster propagation on IP update.

[@shawnharrison5071]

Thank you for these!

[@amateurwizard]

I would ask about setting up a reverse proxy from scratch with Swag but you're probably already on it. Thanks for the video today

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Very soon :)

[@HLundstrom1]

@@SpaceinvaderOne Looking forward to it.

[@ZaBug1]

Great video again!!! Just one question, for me both proxies or on DNS only points to my ip, do you know why?

[@ZaBug1]

my bad, it is working correctly, I just lucked in a wrong place :D. Thank you again for the great video.

[@ditasoft]

Can you make a IPv6 network setup Video for docker etc. ?

[@recom273]

C’mon mista invade - I’m sure we can work it out but I’d like to follow your directions of using a reverse proxy with our new domain!

[@dougruefer8417]

Hey Ed. They updated the docker app and now it looks completely different could you walk though the cloudflareddns portion again or help out what cf_hosts, cf_zones, cf_recordtype is?

[@cosmicbrewery]

I followed your tutorial on duck dns a while ago and everything worked great but just recently google has tagged all of my subdomains as deceptive sites and I believe it's because duck dns doesn't give you an https ssl. Is there a method of reverse proxy with subdomains like duck dns that does use ssl?

[@rockinggator969]

So this is only for Unraid servers? It would be helpful to note that in the video title!

[@bobzeknob]

I have 5g broadband behind CG-NAT. How do I go about getting round this and setting up a VPN for my new unraid server? Thanks

[@dotcaodin]

Is it not necessary select duckdns in any fields? I didn't got well why you don't you duckdns domain. So, will I need a paid domain like ".one" that you'have been using in the video?

[@Doublemyst]

Will it also work, if I only have a IPv6 from my ISP and IPv4 is not private?

[@IBsenoj]

13:01 I followed these steps, and when it came to me testing the ping I cannot ping the dynamic subdomain, only the main domain. Any suggestions? When attempting to ping it says it cannot find a host. I’ve waited a few hours in case it was needing to update, but still no luck. Domain is hosted through squarespace.

[@nikaiwolf]

On cloudflare I don't have the cname mydomain with an ip address does that matter? I did setup the dynamic one

[@nuttybloke45]

Can you please do a video on new features in pfSense 2.5 e.g. Wireguard?

[@RickyDK874]

I'm going crazy on 2.5 ... Having issues on my standard VPN connection and I really want to go over to wireguard as well

[@try-that]

Don't want to hijack anything, but here is a video that explains it all, I use the split tunnel to view my ip cameras. Also as a bonus there are loads of network/pfsense and truenas videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4mqYYWJnbaVl9k

[@andyr.459]

Error found in your instructions? If I turn off the proxy entry at the subdomain in cloudflare, the Docker entry "cloudflare proxy: true" automatically turns on the proxy entry at cloudflare again! I believe that by changing the docker entry to "cloudflare proxy: false" this setting is no longer automatically changed at cloudflare . Am I seeing this correctly? Adaptation of the instructions required?

[@DeepRacerGamer]

Yes. On minute 11:40 you must select "Cloudflare Proxy = false" because if you leave it enable the proxy will be enable every time as the ip it's updated and the setting on minute 13:32 will be lost.

[@AceBoy2099]

How to use cloudflare with duckdns? I've seen ibracorp has done it but havnt found a video on how yet.

[@epielanonimo]

EDIT. Well, I stopd trying to have lucnh and it now works. Don't know why, maybe cloudflare needed some time to update. xD Maybe stupid question. I followed the steps for the cloudflare DDNS but at the end when I ping my dynamic.* the windows terminal tells me "the ping couldn't find the host" and to check the name. If I ping the IP that appears on cloudflares website the ping goes through (with 0ms which I assume is correct for LAN). Did I maje a mistake? Thanks.

[@grants169]

I don't understand why this doesn't work for me proxied. I need to set the record to DNS only on cloudflare. Any suggestions?

[@blinkitogaming]

Hi, there! I've made the transition from the LE docker container to the swag one and noticed that the swag's template has a field for the duckdns token. Does it mean that I no longer need the duckdns container? Thanks in advance!

[@RobertLentz97]

Did you ever figure this out?

[@blinkitogaming]

@@RobertLentz97 yes, I checked this out and worked. First I disabled the duckdns container, wait for a few weeks and no issue came out so I ended up removing it totally. Although right now I’m doing this through cloudflare and a domain name I own.

[@RobertLentz97]

I tried to use cloud flare way and I just getting error 522. With the Duckdns token way, what fields were used? Ex. Validation, subdomains, dnsplugin, etc

[@AfterShockUK1]

Hey Spaceinvader One ! What happend to you old this is how to set-up DuckDNS video with port forwarding instructions ? Its not on your site anymore from what i can tell ??

[@poldelepel]

I hope the proxy in the cloudflare ddns will solve my hairpinning/NAT loopback/NAT reflection issue in Nextcloud... :-) My ISP thinks NAT loopback/reflection is only needed for professional users.... Edit: it didn't help with my NAT loopback problems. Could ombi help?

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

I have a video coming soon which will fix your probem and connect your server to a domain and reverse proxy without having to forward any ports using cloudflare access and argo tunnel

[@poldelepel]

@@SpaceinvaderOne Thank you for all your nice work. I appreciate it a lot!

[@RonaldDupra]

HELP, not sure but in cloudflare how did he get the IP address 34.102 136.180 I'm not sure where this is coming from to add my own version or is it not needed?

[@pspdeepti]

Do you know if there is a workaround when ISP that has the same public IP for multiple customers? Needless to say, I'm interested in a solution that doesn't require me to pay for a static IP or buying a domain. I can't reach my network via even the public IP. This makes the DuckDNS like services of no use for users like me as I can't access my network from outside.

[@TassosPhotographyStudio]

Hyperoptic ISP does that. It is very annoying. Unfortunately there isn’t a solution other than paying for static IP which is IPv4.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

I will be making a video in the next few weeks about how to connect a domain to your server without forwarding any ports using cloudflare access and argo tunnel

[@markatniwiken1229]

Yeah - between Starlink/CGNAT, IPv6, blocked ports -- folks are curious about other options. For me as a Starlink customer I need to scope out options like hoppy, ngrok, and a VPS/tunnel. Hoping Starlink's IPV6 implementation will be showing up soon. Great job on the videos. Just signed up on Patreon and $1.50 as a start is a great value.

[@examen1996]

Ahhh yes, duckdns, one of the reasons all my routers have openwrt.

[@jayhay3746]

Is this still up to date for cloudflare?

[@wakeupcanadians]

this is not true this don't work this way in my home network my router that my internet company is the same IP for over 10 years i never get a different IP address ever so you are so confusing them people like me witch will be a ton and ton of people

[@goodcitizen4587]

Love your flag. The good guys.

[@wakeupcanadians]

@@goodcitizen4587 thanks