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Can you do a quick write up about how to do this? As a web developer, I feel like I should know how to host my own website from my own machine, but I've always

• icebraining 7y ago
  Essentially you write a script in any language that: 1) checks what's your current IP (an easy way is to do a GET request to http://icanhazip.com/ http://icanhazip.com/, available thanks to Red Hat engineer Major Hayden) 2) checks what was the last IP you sent to Cloudflare (saved in a text file on your disk or something like data) 3) if they are different, send a PUT request to the Cloudflare API with the new IP: https://api.cloudflare.com/#dns-records-for-a-zone-update-dns-record https://api.cloudflare.com/#dns-records-for-a-zone-update-dn... 4) Then save that new IP in the text file, so you can check next time Finally, you edit your crontab to run that script every few hours or so.
  • baud147258 7y ago
    I've checked icanhazip.com and it's not returning the same ip as the one from ipconfig. What does it mean? Note I know nothing how networks work and that I'm in a corporate network
    • amdavidson 7y ago
      Your corporate network is using network address translation (NAT) to map an external address, shown on icanhazip.com, to a local network address, shown in ipconfig. You likely share this external address with many other users and mapping services to it will be challenging without having access to the routing/forwarding configuration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
      • baud147258 7y ago
        Okay, thank you for this information.