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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

#31

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.

I’d imagine the type of customer using Dynamic DNS is not the type of customer Oracle wants.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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post #12

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.

They didn't buy it in order to offer dynamic dns.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

#34

Yet again, proving that Oracle is the computing industry's graveyard.

I call Oracle the Black Thumb. Everything they touch, aside from their flagship database, dies. Java. Sun. BerkleyDB. Mysql. Taleo. Larry Ellison might be the 4th horseman - he dresses the part.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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post #27

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…

I somehow got both messages - I need to migrate to Oracle's new platform and also "no action is required". I expect the DynDNS hostnames I had constituted part of the free service despite needing a Pro account to create them.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

#37

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…

Minor point: You'd actually be typing "oraclecloud.com", e.g. https://console.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com

That's a lot better, right? grin ;)

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

#38

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".

He owns an entire Hawaiian island. We're past the bigger yacht stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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post #33

I'm a happy user of Afraid's FreeDNS: https://freedns.afraid.org Edit: I'm not affiliatted with the service, I just really like it.

Joshua is a really friendly and generous one to run it for all these years. I'd trust this than some corporate who didn't bother to migrate customers.
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