Month: June 2020

HAProxy as a TCP reverse proxy with DDNS target discovery and load balancing

HAProxy is an excellent tool for forwarding or load-balancing TCP traffic. It is far more memory-efficient than socat and offers a persistent configuration between reboots, but without requiring net.ipv4.ip_forward to be enabled. Compared to NGINX, HAProxy offers a more comprehensive and user-friendly status page with far more metrics, which can be easily integrated with third-party…

17 June, 2020
A Cloudflare DDNS script that uses an API Token instead of your Global API Key

I have been using this simple bash script for a while for my DDNS needs. It is simple enough for quick deployment, and gets the job done. That is until Caddy2’s Cloudflare DNS provider moves away from Global API Key to API Token for the API access. This prompted me to rethink the security implications…

4 June, 2020

HAProxy as a TCP reverse proxy with DDNS target discovery and load balancing