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I'm currently on the search for a service to facilitate DDNS. Duck DNS seems popular, but I'm skeptical of things that are simply offered for free. What assurance do we have that Duck DNS is secure, or that it will not just disappear one day? The alternative that seems better to me is Namecheap with their API.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why not just pay for a domain and run a cronjob to update the IP in case it changes?
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It seems unsafe to me to be passing your username and password over the open every second day. Especially one that links to Google - which for the majority of people is their life. As a side note - will the recent announcement by Google about unsafe logins being denied affect you?
In the open? I believe u:pwd is HTTP Basic Auth , which is not "in the open" when over TLS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication#Se...
~~Also as the parent noted, Google have the last few years been very aggressive about "unsafe login" (using usr+pass outside of Google) and this might disappear.~~
Edit: Never mind, buried in the docs it appears the user:pass are scoped.
I was quite surprised to learn this has nothing to do with DDG. Interesting how DDG seem to have taken the meaning of "duck" in (my) mind.
What's more interesting is that DDG had disputes with Google over the ownership of the duck.com domain. Google was squatting on the domain and redirected it to Google (dirty tactic). But I guess it could just as easily have gone to the Oregon Ducks or some duck based website. (interestingly "ducks.com" doesn't go anywhere for me)
I'm currently on the search for a service to facilitate DDNS. Duck DNS seems popular, but I'm skeptical of things that are simply offered for free. What assurance do we have that Duck DNS is secure, or that it will not just disappear one day? The alternative that seems better to me is Namecheap with their API.
Why does it matter if it just disappears one day if you are not paying for it anyways?
I'm currently on the search for a service to facilitate DDNS. Duck DNS seems popular, but I'm skeptical of things that are simply offered for free. What assurance do we have that Duck DNS is secure, or that it will not just disappear one day? The alternative that seems better to me is Namecheap with their API.
For anyone hosting their domain on Google Domains, there's a neat API endpoint they're offering for updating the DNS with a simple CURL. I've been using this for years now for a public Raspberry PI behind a home router that changes IPs every other day. curl -s -k --user "username:password" "https://domains.google.com/nic/update?hostname=yourdomain.com" There's more parameters (and you can specify an IP, the above req…
For anyone hosting their domain on Google Domains, there's a neat API endpoint they're offering for updating the DNS with a simple CURL. I've been using this for years now for a public Raspberry PI behind a home router that changes IPs every other day. curl -s -k --user "username:password" "https://domains.google.com/nic/update?hostname=yourdomain.com" There's more parameters (and you can specify an IP, the above req…
I don't know if it's relevant but there was an article the other day about how Google is phasing out username:password logins for most Google related services and APIs, so if you have a script running quietly for years doing this task, it might be worth double checking if it will continue to be fine. (It might be, if this u/p is unique to the domain as the docs suggest - but I thought I'd mention it just in case!)