dumduckie - Setting Up Tunnels
i need a persistent tunnel. i am trying to make a sort of media backup server. i can't seem to get ddns to work. i think my router doesn't support http traffic
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So, first, do you have a Cloudflare account yet?
I do
Have you added your domain to it yet?
I tried. But I'm not sure how to. I typed in my domain and it showed an A record i had set up pointing to another project. Should I remove that? What other record should I add? Can I keep it empty?
That is showing what records currently exist on your domain. This is probably a previous project you set up through Google, or something that Google may have added on its own. It is up to you whether you want to keep the record or not. Just make sure you won’t break anything if you do choose to remove it.
Is it okay to keep the records empty? Suppose i own the domain example.com. And i want the tunnel to be accessible through something like subdomain.example.com. Can you walk me through the process of setting up something like that? Sending documentation resources is also fine. I'm just confused with the networking terms 🥲
Do you have anything on the domain already you want to keep, or are you ok with starting with a clean slate?
I have an A record set up to another project i was working on.
I would like to keep that
There should be a continue/import button. Click that to move on.
Okay. And after that the nameservers right?
Yup. Replace the pre-existing ones in Google with the ones you got from Cloudflare.
I did that as well. What next?
There should be another blue continue button, or something similar. Click that.
Oh i didn't see that. But I'll have to try it tomorrow now because it's late for me 🥲. Can I bother you tomorrow? Thank you so much for your help so far
Of course! Reply to a message I have sent in this thread, or send me a ping like so: @HardAtWork, and I’ll get back on. Have a nice evening!