Self-hosted and Easy-to-deploy Cloudflare based Dynamic DNS service for router

Contents

• Features
• Environment Variables
• Installation
  • Heroku
  • Docker (Run and Compose)
  • Standalone Binaries
• Router Setup
• Build and Run Locally
• Contributing
• Authors
• License

Features

• Easy-to-use heroku one click deploy
• Support for multiple domains
• Flexible in terms deploying and installing options
• Single multi-arch docker image
• Multi platform binaries

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file (or) set them accordingly for use with docker or with your os

USERNAME - Username for flareup service

PASSWORD - Password for flareup service

CF_API_TOKEN - Cloudflare api token with edit permission for required zones i.e domains

PORT (Optional) - By default flareup listen's on port 5335

DOMAINS - Comma(,) seperated domains e.g

example1.domain.tld , example2.domain.tld

PROXIED (Optional, Default:false) - Proxy dns service through cloudflare service

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Installation

• FlareUp can be installed and used in the following ways

Heroku

• Click and its pretty self explanatory.

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Docker

1. Docker Run

   1. To automatically install & run FlareUp, simply run:

      docker run -d \
      --name=flareup \
      -e USERNAME=<username> \
      -e PASSWORD=<password> \
      -e CF_API_TOKEN=<cloudflare api token> \
      -e DOMAINS=<comma(,) seperated domain> \
      -e PROXIED=false \
      -p 5335:5335 \
      --restart unless-stopped \
      coolfool/flareup
      

   2. Logs can be found using

      docker container logs flareup
      

2. Docker Compose

   1. Download docker-compose.yml
   2. Open the file in a text editor and fill the environment variables
   3. Execute the following command in the same directory

      docker-compose up -d
      

   4. FlareUp should start listening on 5335 or the port specified in env vars.

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Standalone Binaries

1. Download the binary for your platform from Releases section
2. Extract the archive
3. Run the binary according to your os
   • For linux

     ./flareup 
     

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Router Setup

• Important Notes before setup:
  1. The flareup update url is https://example.com/update
  2. If the router insists on having a hostname for update you can use https://example.com/update?hostname= as url and all.flareup as hostname

1. The DynamicDNS server will be the hostname where the service is hosted eg. example.com

2. Fill the username and password as you entered in environment variable

3. Enter the hostname as all.flareup if required

4. The update urls are as follows:

   1. https://example.com/update without hostname
   2. https://example.com/update?hostname=all.flareup with hostname

5. Save settings and the service should start updating cloudflare dns

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Build and Run Locally

1. Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/CoolFool/flareup

2. Go to the project directory

  cd flareup

3. Install dependencies

  go build -o flareup ./cmd/flareup

4. Create .env file according to the variables mentioned in Environment Variables

5. Start the service according to your platform

• For linux

  ./flareup 

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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Authors

• @coolfool

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License

MIT

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