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Post by quasque »

darklajid wrote: post #52
nodata wrote: post #6

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.

I was also unhappy with their customer service from an incident a couple years back and won't be using them again. Not really sure why they get so many recommendations here.

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Post by neves »

A little known fact: If you have a Brazilian domain, you have free DNS at Registro.br, the official country register.

I stopped to use dyndns since they started doing it some years ago. The interface is a lot better, and you will have quicker responses for your Brazilian visitors.

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Post by IgorPartola »

dewey wrote: post #4

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.

I personally like dns.he.net. Hurricane Electric is great. The catch? Limit to 50 second level domains.

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Post by awalton »

na85 wrote: post #67
awalton wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, because there can never be a backdoor or unknown security flaw in OpenWRT, PFSense or some other modern firmware.

Hey, great snarky reply. 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!

Sure the software can, theoretically be audited. But 1) Requires someone actually auditing software. Which judging by the state of OpenSSL flaws, we're doing a shit-tier job at. and 2) Requires people patching the "internet of things" cringe - which we've also seen isn't happening. Furthermore, most of the devices are dependent on closed source drivers for wireless devices.

And you're still just hoping the compromise isn't at the hardware level, because then you're truly up a creek.

Hell, we don't have access to the baseband software in our cellphones or the SIM chip, which can happily take control of the application processor and do what it needs to do, yet we all clamor around the fact that Android is Open and thusly Auditable and that makes it automatically superior in every way.

With enough eyes all bugs are shallow. But nobody's actually looking at the software, so bugs live on, and the big boogie man NSA can still be anywhere and everywhere.

There are Eyes In Your Radio. They're not going anywhere.

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Post by greyskull »

specialp wrote: post #58

Hurricane electric offers free dynDNS, free DNS, and also free IPv6 tunneling. https://dns.he.net/ You can even set up an IPv6 tunnel for a dynamic IP and have it update dynamically.

+1 to this. I've only touched very basic usage, but it was easy. And it's HE... big name and comes with reliability.

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Post by dehrmann »

zdw wrote: post #21
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #2

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.

Funny enough, I put a lot of work into a OpenWRT dyndns update script. I wonder what ever happened to that code.

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Post by archagon »

korzun wrote: post #10
dewey wrote: post #4

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.

Another vote for https://freedns.afraid.org , the guy who runs it is a great dude.

Plus, who doesn't want a subdomain at crabdance.com?

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Post by archagon »

zdw wrote: post #21
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #2

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.

Actually, I've been wondering lately, just how common are router compromises? I ask because I have a Synology unit that was infected with some pretty insidious malware just by being out on the open internet and having a slightly out-of-date OS version. Since it's now easily possible to scan the entire IPv4 address space, it makes me wonder if having out-of-date firmware would basically guarantee a hacked router these days.

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Post by sylvinus »

darklajid wrote: post #52
nodata wrote: post #6

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.

Is this on their hosting or DNS offerings?

Given that Gandi's reputation is outstanding, your experience seems quite odd. Can you elaborate?

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