Domain instead of ip in Wireguard

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Dust0741@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Like the title says, I want to replace the IP address in a wireguard .conf file to be a domain instead.

I own a domain through cloudflare, so say I wanted to use vpn.example.org

What DNS record and info do I need to put into Cloudflare? (I am aware I’ll need to update it if my ip changes)

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Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just an A record, you just need the domain query to resolve to your IP.

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- Dust0741@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thank you. It really was that simple
  
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  - majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I do this on my home network which has a Dynamic IP. I wrote a script which I cron to check and update it if it changes github.com/MajesticTechie/CloudflareDynamicDNS
    
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eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Note that most wireguard clients wont re-resolve when the ends entry and they will keep silently a failed tunnel so you would have to do some measure to periodically restart the tunnel.

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