https://dns.he.net/ is pretty good ( run by Hurricane Electric )
DynDNS ends free services
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Re: DynDNS ends free services
#112Is anyone here hosting their own dyndns setup?
not anymore
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#113Is anyone here hosting their own dyndns setup?
For anyone that happens to use PointDNS DNS hosting (it's free for a single domain I believe), I've written a small script to be called from cron.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not fear of backdoors that make me run a specific router. If I want free wifi access around the country (via BT Openzone) then I need to run BT's router (which includes the magic to run a separate managed public Wifi access point via BT Fon). It's annoying, but I can live with it (especially when they get around to upgrading my cabinet to FTTC and I get 60Mbps/20Mbps).
I'm in the same situation, but my FON router sits behind my main router and isolated from my internal network. It still shares Internet access just fine :)
Are you on Infinity (FTTC)? I've heard various stories about people on FTTC getting slower speeds with anything other then the latest Homehub.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Following up on my experience: Was looking for a registrar for my domains that supports DNSSEC (for the TLDs that support it, obviously) and wanted to leave my previous (really cheap one). I heard about their 'no bullshit' slogan and their rather good reputation. Searching online confirmed that - Gandi supports DNSSEC for the domains I care about (.sh, .de) [1] - Gandi supports all my (cc)TLDs (.name, .de, .sh, .net)…
So, to keep this honest because these threads are still alive and active: In the end (like, just now) Gandi refunded the money - I have no pre-paid account anymore, after complaining they returned the money to me instead.
So pain points:
- user interface
- half of their TLDs are inaccessible, even for inbound transfers of the respective owner
- corporate sales team was .. useless and these business rules really don't smell like 'no bullshit' to me
Upsides (to be fair):
- support replied via mail to all my requests and was generally friendly
- I got my money back in the end (for transfers that didn't happen, so nothing lost on their side either, this is not a courtesy imo)
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in the same situation, but my FON router sits behind my main router and isolated from my internal network. It still shares Internet access just fine :)
Are you on Infinity (FTTC)? I've heard various stories about people on FTTC getting slower speeds with anything other then the latest Homehub.
Oh, I'm not actually in the UK at all, I just meant I also need to keep a FON router connected.
In that case, I assume the best option would be to put a decent router behind the Homehub (configuring the latter in bridge mode or similar) and then treating all traffic beyond the inner router as public.
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#117For 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 ;)
+1 for namecheap. You don't even have to pay for anything. I started using DDNS at Dyn and then ended up registering a bunch of domain names. Now I'm going to move them to Namecheap which already does my DNS (for free) and now DDNS.
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#118I started paying them a couple years ago for my DynDNS service, and have had no trouble in that time. I'm glad they chose to keep the service rather than shutting it down. And I'm especially glad to see them charging a small fee for a valuable service, rather than running it for free: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
IMO they could have handled the transition to non-free better. But every time they took away some of the free stuff, you have seen popular outrage. They pissed off lots of people that could have been potential customers and I was one of them. Their lowest price plan is 25$ per year. If I only would want the most basic feature, that is having 1 or 2 dynamic ip addresses bound to a specific DNS entry (not even wildcard…
I totally agree with your sentiment. But I have to say a 'non-paying customer' isn't a customer at all, by definition. ;)
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#119Switched to No-IP, took a couple minutes. No big deal, I've never really liked DynDNS anyways, they were far to aggressive in trying to force upgrades.
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#120I haven't found anything that beats the ease of use of LuaDNS [1] though. Edit a simple lua script, git push and done!