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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 andrenotgiant »

sergiomattei wrote: post #17
pmlnr wrote: post #15

Digitalocean has a free dns service plus an api. All you need is a cron based api call and you have dynamic dns.

I did not know this. Source/docs?

Here's a good place to start: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/dns/overview/

As a note: you'll have to add a valid payment method on DigitalOcean to activate your account, but once you're in it's free to use all the DNS features, and you can automate via the API, docs here: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#domain...

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by pivo »

kaustubhvp wrote: post #14

This is very much Oracle. Killing competition by just buying good tech and closing it down.

I'm not an Oracle fan, but what Oracle product did DynDNS compete with? It seems more likely that they bought the people/tech for the Oracle cloud effort and didn't care at all about DynDNS business, which seemed like pretty small potatoes by Oracle standards.

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Post by smacktoward »

andrewbinstock wrote: post #22
kaustubhvp wrote: post #14

This is very much Oracle. Killing competition by just buying good tech and closing it down.

>This is very much Oracle This is very much large companies.

You can always tell when they're completely done digesting an acquisition, because the digestive process always ends with a belch like this.

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by vidanay »

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…

That's pretty much exactly how the transition is for me:

Dear Customer,

Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.

Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by burnte »

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…

A few years ago, we needed to move 4 VMs from one host in a DC nearby to on-prem. They were in their own little IP subnet, and they ran this crappy software called CoPath from Cerner. The app, being written in PowerBuilder, it was a delicate app, and I called up Cerner to ask the best way to move these VMs since we'd need to change the IP address space they occupied. Cerner said they had no idea what might happen, it might work, or everything might break. The safest path was to reinstall in new VMs and move the data. It would be $25,000 to do that. I laughed, said I can get a new LIS system for taht including data import. They said they'd take that feedback to the quote team, never got another response.

I changed LIS systems, saved money.

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Post by microtherion »

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've used dns.he.net recently. Seems to work, and you can't argue with the price.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by falcolas »

vidanay wrote: post #27
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…

That's pretty much exactly how the transition is for me: Dear Customer, Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is…

Yeah, I got the same message. As of this moment, I have no reason to change, since it is a seamless transition with no appreciable changes to my service.
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