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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.
http://en.gandi.net/ offers free secondary dns with all domains you buy/renew through them.
Given that I just left gandi after 2 days: Please be sure that you want to do business with them and that you've thoroughly checked their offerings. I'm kinda guilty on part two and can answer part one with a resounding 'no'. Their no bullshit claim didn't apply here, I cannot and won't recommend them.
Alternatives 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.
However, I recently bought a new ASUS router that includes an ASUS dynamic DNS service built in (asuscomm.com) that works really well.
There's an app that allows me to wake up my computers remotely via my Android phone, and I can VPN into my network to do SSH/Remote Desktop.
The nice thing about DynDNS is that it was widely supported by routers, including DD-WRT and Tomato.
I have used them for years under their free model. I signed up for 2 years instantly after receiving an email regarding this. In my mind, they have earned it: A great service and free for all these years. I think this is a great way to move from free to paid services.
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I feel sorry for people whose routers aren't running OpenWRT, PFSense, or some other easily upgradable modern firmware that's free of backdoors.
You know, because there can never be a backdoor or unknown security flaw in OpenWRT, PFSense or some other modern firmware.
Of course, in your haste to post a reddit-style sarcastic comment, you missed or glossed over the fact that free software such as OpenWRT or PFSense can be audited and patched by the public, and is not controlled by some corporation under undue influence by the NSA.
Oops! Better luck next time!
Rackspace offers DNS with all cloud accounts and doesn't charge for it. As far as I know, you can sign up for a cloud account and not actually purchase any services, though I would probably put some files in Cloud Files so you're at least paying them something to keep the account around. You can update your records via their API or via their control panel and there are no per-change or per-domain fees. You're getting…
What 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. [1] http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com