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Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by almost »

stevefink wrote: post #19

Perhaps I'm missing something, but what exactly is appealing about this service and/or is new and innovative? It's trivial enough to put a web interface in front of BIND or djbdns to replicate this behavior to where I'm trying to understand why this got ranked highly? I am by no means bashing the creator of this service nor the service itself - I'd just like to understand what additional value is being provided here…

You say it's so trivial yet you didn't include a link to the one you just set up to prove your point :p So not quite that trivial, and that is often enough.

Quite often it is useful to be able to do something easily and quickly that you could have done before with more effort.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by forensic »

strick wrote: post #12
paraschopra wrote: post #4

Interesting. Thinking about possible use cases. Any ideas?

I just used it to give an easy-to-remember name to a rackspace cloud server I spun up yesterday. This is a throw-away server I'll likely nuke within a month, but for now I will remember how to get back without needing to memorize the IP address.

>needing to memorize the IP address

Really?

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by uxp »

paraschopra wrote: post #4

Interesting. Thinking about possible use cases. Any ideas?

I've had the need on dynamically assigned IP addresses to share files with people when the file too large for email, and I didn't want to take the time to upload it to a server on a slower uplink and then have the recipient download it, taking twice as much time.

Being able to open up an Apache or Nginx server without using a confusingly long hostname (eg 127-0-0-1-dhcp.node01.someispdomain.net) which would be easy to misspell over the phone, to let someone grab whatever they needed directly from me makes this a very optimal service for such a small use.

I can see a group of people working on a webapp building a list of subdomains using this service so that a project lead can instantly see how each developer is working on a problem on their local machines.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by jpcx01 »

keefe wrote: post #29
JeremyBanks wrote: post #6

Having it provide a button to fill in the user's IP (or perhaps doing so by default) might be useful.

extremely this... that takes down a huge barrier to entry for a totally trivial cost

Hmm... I can't see that being terribly useful. I think having it there as a default would be a distraction.

If anything, should be a button or something for "use my ip address". But I imagine the 95% use case being people with cloud servers, not trying to get a hostname for thier current computer's ip address.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by code_duck »

That's pretty interesting. Somewhat like DDNS, but not as useful?

I don't know if I want an ipq.co address, but I just realized - could I use my own DNS hosting (through slicehost, linode, whatever) to assign domain names to arbitrary IP addresses?

Like, if I own garlicgargle.com, and I have another system with a static IP, does that mean I can just assign salty.garlicgargle.com to that IP and it works fine? Sorry for the basic question, I guess I don't understand doing much with DNS beyond the common tasks.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by tc23emp »

keefe wrote: post #28
equark wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You boot up an ec2 instance and want to give a domain name to a friend that isn't 100 characters long. How much effort does it take you setup your bind solution? Particularly if you've never setup dns before. Can I do this given that I'm not running any other servers? The popularity of dyndns should give you a sense of demand.

that being said you can do this for free @ dyndns with only slightly more effort

DynDNS now limits new accounts to only 2 free subdomains.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by tc23emp »

blahhah wrote: post #17
cfaulkingham wrote: post #13

I am not sure how I feel about this. A domain name implies ownership of the site. It's kind of like reverse domain hijacking. See, http://hackernews.ipq.co/ Am I missing something?

On top of it I was able to create an account on hackernews.ipq.co version of hackers news called blahhah. Maybe y-combinator doesn't care but I think I would!

Why should anyone care? You would do more damage by pointing to a fake site like countless phishing sites already in existence.

Re: Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

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Post by jrockway »

code_duck wrote: post #36

That's pretty interesting. Somewhat like DDNS, but not as useful? I don't know if I want an ipq.co address, but I just realized - could I use my own DNS hosting (through slicehost, linode, whatever) to assign domain names to arbitrary IP addresses? Like, if I own garlicgargle.com, and I have another system with a static IP, does that mean I can just assign salty.garlicgargle.com to that IP and it works fine? Sorry fo…

Yes. It's called an A record.
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