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Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by adamkittelson »

gingerlime wrote: post #2

I was a Dyn customer since the late 90s (I think...). In the early(ish) days they offered a lifetime DNS service for something like $30, so I jumped on the opportunity. I don't think there was much else around at the time... All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I? Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

I recently moved a MUD I host from cloud services to a little System76 box in my laundry room. I use dnsimple.com for my domains and they have an API, so I just added a little task to my MUD server to periodically check my ip address via https://api.ipify.org/ and then check what I have for my A record in dnsimple's API, if it differs I update it.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by rcj4747 »

apple4ever wrote: post #4

This isn't surprising, but still upsetting. First as noted, no Dynamic DNS or DNSSEC?? REALLY?? Come on. Second as also noted, the migration is manually! You have to download a zone record and upload it, and that's after manually creating your account. I'll be switching to Cloudflare. Been considering it for a while, but now it makes sense.

No dynamic DNS? This is literally the name of the company they bought.

And the migration is just a sign up for a new service after exporting my zone config? They really don't care about losing customers it would seem. Easy enough, my router supports domains.google.com for ddns and my domain registration is already there, it's time for DNS to follow it.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by acheron »

gingerlime wrote: post #2

I was a Dyn customer since the late 90s (I think...). In the early(ish) days they offered a lifetime DNS service for something like $30, so I jumped on the opportunity. I don't think there was much else around at the time... All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I? Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

At the time it was specifically "dyndns.org", because there was a separate "dyndns.com" company that they eventually bought out, IIRC.

> All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it.

Was a good run for sure.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by m-p-3 »

gingerlime wrote: post #2

I was a Dyn customer since the late 90s (I think...). In the early(ish) days they offered a lifetime DNS service for something like $30, so I jumped on the opportunity. I don't think there was much else around at the time... All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I? Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

I found duckdns a while ago, I use it to tinker with ephemeral / non-production stuff.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by walrus01 »

jpollock wrote: post #10

As a lesson to anyone else hoping to do a shutdown with a migration to a different service with your company. If you are going to treat me the same as any new subscriber, where I have to re-signup, re-add my payment method, export my settings and then import them again, you're asking me to buy all over again. If you ask me to buy, then I get will reevaluate the relationship, and if it's just as easy to migrate to ano…

As a person that utterly detests oracle's db software licensing model, every time I see a sales pitch from Oracle I mentally translate it as "Larry Ellison needs a bigger yacht".

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by iforgotpassword »

gingerlime wrote: post #2

I was a Dyn customer since the late 90s (I think...). In the early(ish) days they offered a lifetime DNS service for something like $30, so I jumped on the opportunity. I don't think there was much else around at the time... All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I? Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

I'm currently using dynv6. Despite the name they also support A records. :-)

Nothing overly fancy, useable via simple curl calls. I'm just using it to reach my home server, so if you want more advanced features ymmv.

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