d2c-rs

Update Cloudflare DNS 'A' records with your public IP.

Created to be a drop in replacement for this tool: https://github.com/ddries/d2c.rs

[!WARNING]
This code currently does NOT WORK due to the dependency cloudflare-rs not being updated to the latest API spec. Once this dependency has been updated on Crates.io and the necessary patches published, d2c-rs will be working.

d2c-rs (Dynamic DNS Cloudflare) is a very simple program to automatically update the IP address of A DNS records from Cloudflare using your current public IP. This tool is designed to be run regularly e.g. on a cronjob.

Project goals

• Ease of use for the most simple use case of updating a DNS 'A' record for a single server
• "Fire and forget" configuration that is as simple as possible

Project non-goals

• Adapting the entire Cloudflare DNS API
• Adding a ton of configuration options
• Converting this to a daemon or service

Configure

d2c-rs is configured using TOML files located in /etc/d2c/. The first time you run d2c-rs from the command-line, it will create the config directory for you. You will then need to manually create one or more TOML configuration files.

The script processes all files in /etc/d2c/ directory that end with .toml, e.g. /etc/d2c/d2c.toml, /etc/d2c/zone1.toml or /etc/d2c/zone2.toml.

Syntax:

[api]
zone-id = "aaa" # your DNS zone ID
api-key = "bbb" # your API key with DNS records permissions

[[dns]]
name = "dns1.example.com" # DNS name
proxy = true              # Proxied by Cloudflare?

[[dns]]
name = "dns2.example.com"
proxy = false

When d2c-rs is run, it will process each *.toml TOML file in the /etc/d2c/ directory, updating the records configured in each with the current public IP of the machine. The A records must be created from the Cloudflare dashboard first; then d2c-rs will be able to update them with the server's public IP.

To run d2c-rs regularly, create a cronjob:

crontab -e # set cronjob to run d2c-rs periodically

Usage

d2c-rs --help

Prints the following information:

d2c (Dynamic Dns Cloudflare): Update the Cloudflare DNS A records for your dynamic IP.

Usage: d2c-rs

`d2c` UPDATES existing records. Please, create them in Cloudflare Dashboard before running this script.

The configuration is done in `/etc/d2c/*.toml` files in TOML format.
Configuration file structure:

[api]
zone-id = "<zone id>"
api-key = "<api key>"

[[dns]]
name = "test.example.com"
proxy = false

[[dns]]
name = "test2.example.com"
proxy = true

For more verbosity, use the -v or -vv flags:

d2c-rs -v
# Or
d2c-rs -vv

Installation

From Crates.io

[!WARNING]
This method currently does not work.

Install d2c-rs using Cargo:

cargo install d2c-rs

Manually from source

Clone this repository and ensure you have rustup installed.

git clone https://github.com/Riceman2000/d2c-rs.git
cd d2c-rs
cargo install --path .