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Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by sunburnt » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 12:21 PM UTC

paraschopra wrote: post #4

Interesting. Thinking about possible use cases. Any ideas?

This looks similar to Dynamic DNS service from DynDNS.com. This is useful if you would like to have a domain name for your home network, for example, but don't want to purchase a domain name and have to update the IP address whenever the ISP changes it.

The downside I see here is that some (many?) home routers support DynDNS service to automatically update your IP address with DynDNS whenever it changes. I don't know whether home routers can be configured to do the same with IPQuick service.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by strick » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 1:46 PM UTC

paraschopra wrote: post #4

Interesting. Thinking about possible use cases. Any ideas?

I just used it to give an easy-to-remember name to a rackspace cloud server I spun up yesterday. This is a throw-away server I'll likely nuke within a month, but for now I will remember how to get back without needing to memorize the IP address.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by cfaulkingham » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 1:56 PM UTC

I am not sure how I feel about this. A domain name implies ownership of the site.

It's kind of like reverse domain hijacking.

See, http://hackernews.ipq.co/

Am I missing something?

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by kree10 » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 1:58 PM UTC

gm_ wrote: post #5

I get an error when trying to create a record with an email address - "doesn't look like an email address". Tried it with an ISP email address, and a gmail address.

I'm getting "The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to." for every IP address I try: my current Comcast address, and the addresses of a few servers I work on. I also put in 66.220.147.22 (www.facebook.com) just to see what it would do, and got the same message. I'm leaving the optional name and e-mail fields blank.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by ra » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 2:11 PM UTC

cfaulkingham wrote: post #13

I am not sure how I feel about this. A domain name implies ownership of the site. It's kind of like reverse domain hijacking. See, http://hackernews.ipq.co/ Am I missing something?

It's up to the web site owner to check HTTP Host.

You could equally have registered hakernews.com and CNAME'd it

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by jncraton » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 2:17 PM UTC

I'm not really sure what I would use this for. It's nice to have DNS for a box at home, but those aren't usually on a static IP. If my IP is dynamic, I'd probably go with a service like DynDNS which keeps my DNS record updated as the IP address changes.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by blahhah » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 2:21 PM UTC

cfaulkingham wrote: post #13

I am not sure how I feel about this. A domain name implies ownership of the site. It's kind of like reverse domain hijacking. See, http://hackernews.ipq.co/ Am I missing something?

On top of it I was able to create an account on hackernews.ipq.co version of hackers news called blahhah.

Maybe y-combinator doesn't care but I think I would!

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by blahhah » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 2:27 PM UTC

ra wrote: post #15

cfaulkingham wrote: post #13

I am not sure how I feel about this. A domain name implies ownership of the site. It's kind of like reverse domain hijacking. See, http://hackernews.ipq.co/ Am I missing something?

It's up to the web site owner to check HTTP Host. You could equally have registered hakernews.com and CNAME'd it

I agree, web site owners should be checking the host. Most of them don't.

And yes I could easily create a CNAME record to do the same thing but you have to have a reasonable amount of knowledge to do so. Unlike this tool.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by stevefink » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 3:05 PM UTC

Perhaps I'm missing something, but what exactly is appealing about this service and/or is new and innovative? It's trivial enough to put a web interface in front of BIND or djbdns to replicate this behavior to where I'm trying to understand why this got ranked highly? I am by no means bashing the creator of this service nor the service itself - I'd just like to understand what additional value is being provided here that does not already exist?

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by Goladus » Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 3:14 PM UTC

thehodge wrote: post #3

Nice and simple interface, Love it :)

Too simple, for me. What if I want to remove the record? Or change the record? I can't tell whether I'll be able to do it or not (I know email doesn't work yet, but is there any other way? No way to tell). If the answer, as I suspect, is that you can't then it's a simple interface because it's a tool that can only do one very limited thing really well.