Collect IPv6 addresses from hosts and update CloudFlare's DNS with their AAAA records

This script has multiple components: the client, which sends its host's IPv6 address to the server, which keeps track of addresses and runs a worker which periodically updates DNS with CloudFlare. This means you'll need to install this script on a server host and on all client hosts.

Check out the source and install dependencies:

bundler

Make sure you have ruby's header files installed (ruby-dev in Debian's/Ubuntu's packages).

Now copy ddnsv6.conf.yaml.example to ddnsv6.conf.yaml and fill out the settings. You can use the same config file on every host, server settings are just ignored on clients and vice-versa or you can omit all the settings that are not needed.

• domains (server): a list of domains this script will manage
• basedir (server): the path where the server should keep its records about addresses. Make sure the server has write-access to this destination.
• server (client): the hostname the client should send its requests to
• port (client): the port number the client should send its requests to
• ssl (client): true or false, whether the client should encrypt its communication with the server. Only works if there's a webserver in front of the server app that terminates SSL. The server portion can't do SSL on its own.
• cloudflare_email: (server): account name of your CloudFlare account
• cloudflare_key: (server): API key for CloudFlare
• username (client): username to use for the client's communication with the server. Only works if there's a webserver in front of the server app that handles authentication. The server portion can't do authentication on its own.
• password (client): password to use for the client's communication with the server. Only works if there's a webserver in fron of the server app that handles authentication. The server portion can't do authentication on its own.
• prefix(client): IPv6-Prefix (no network part) ip addresses have to match to be included in the IP updates. Find out your provider's prefix and add it here, e.g. 2001

To run the client, you need to have an environment variable that specifies which network interface to look up for an IP address. This is not in the config file, in order to make using different interfaces without config changes easier.

• DDNS_IFACE (client): interface name of your desired network interface, e.g. eth0

On the server, you need to have a whitelist.txt with hostnames that should be exported to CloudFlare's DNS. This is a security measure to avoid publishing private IPs to the public DNS hierarchy. This file needs to contain one FQDN per line, like so:

foo.domain.invalid
bar.domain.invalid

To use the tool, you'll need to run the server continuously. It is highly recommended to put a webserver like nginx or apache in front of the server part. You may run the server part on its own, too, but you won't have features like authentication or SSL in that case. Here's a list of deployment methods for the sinatra framework.

To use the client, just set DDNS_IFACE to the interface name you want the IP address to come from and run client.rb, ideally from a cronjob like so:

*/5 * * * * DDNS_IFACE=eth0 /home/ddns/app/client.rb

To have the DNS records on CloudFlare's DNS servers updated, run worker.rb, ideally from a cronjob like so:

*/10 * * * * /home/ddns/app/worker.rb

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