I feel sorry for those people who have routers that only have built-in support for DynDNS. :(
I feel sorry for people whose routers aren't running OpenWRT, PFSense, or some other easily upgradable modern firmware that's free of backdoors.
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#22http://en.gandi.net/ offers free secondary dns with all domains you buy/renew through them.
Most hosting providers and domain sellers will provide this for free.
CloudFlare also offers free DNS (which you can use with a patched version of ddclient). CloudFlare uses anycast, so it's fast, and as a DoS protection company, they tend to be more reliable than many of the other free options.
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#23Alternatives I switched to a while ago: - https://freedns.afraid.org/ - https://ydns.eu/ What I like about these two is that you are able to update the IP by just curl'ing a certain URL, which works great in combination with a cronjob. Edit: It looks like OP submitted the tracking URL from the newsletter, his ID is probably going to stick out in their analytics.
DuckDNS[0] is another alternative that I've been seeing posted on reddit. Works exactly like the rest -- curl a URL to update your IP. Really nice staff. I've got a PR[1] for a homebrew formula for duckdns which uses launchd rather than cron (which has been deprecated since OSX 10.8).
[0] http://duckdns.org [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/28255
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#24What DNS hosting providers can you recommend? Preferably with an API or other means to programmatically make changes to zones. Bonus points for SRV and TXT records support.
We've been using dnsmadeeasy[1] for years. There's something dated about their interface/presentation, but the service has been rock solid and fast since day one.
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#25I feel sorry for those people who have routers that only have built-in support for DynDNS. :(
Yup - this is the situation I'm in. My ISP requires a specific modem/router combo. As an alternative, I'm going to switch to running a client on my machine.
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#26For what it's worth, if you use namecheap.com as your DNS registrar then you have this type of service already for free. If you don't use namecheap, then you're doing it wrong ;)
Cool, glad you mentioned this! I've used namecheap for a while and never noticed this feature! This will save me the trouble of having an outside service for DDNS.
For anyone else looking for this feature, log in to namecheap.com and click Manage Domains, click the domain you want to use DDNS with, then look for the Dynamic DNS link on the left menu under Miscellaneous.
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#27Is anyone here hosting their own dyndns setup?
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#28dyndns has been getting progressively more hostile to free users for years. I thought it was ridiculous years ago when I switched to no-ip.org, I'm surprised that anyone has held on this long.
What hostility or ridiculousness did you see? I've been on Dyn forever, as a free user to keep a host entry for one remote, nonprofit dynamic-IP server. Starting exactly a year ago, once per month they sent me an email with a link I'd click to keep my free hostname(s) active. Seemed reasonable.
I used to be on EasyDNS and they got acquired by DynDNS many years back. They really have been trying to kick off the free users for a long time. Anyone who's hung on til now is a survivor.
They dropped from 5 free hostnames to 2, in 2010. And they have been enforcing this "log into your account monthly" since at least that time. Not 1 year, but at least 4 years or more. That's how I lost my free hostname - because I missed a month. Thanks Dyn!
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#29Is anyone here hosting their own dyndns setup?
Not yet, but this looks interesting: https://github.com/asmaps/hopper.pw
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#30Alternatives I switched to a while ago: - https://freedns.afraid.org/ - https://ydns.eu/ What I like about these two is that you are able to update the IP by just curl'ing a certain URL, which works great in combination with a cronjob. Edit: It looks like OP submitted the tracking URL from the newsletter, his ID is probably going to stick out in their analytics.
Another vote for https://freedns.afraid.org , the guy who runs it is a great dude.
Exactly what he said.