one could just pay a small yearly fee to register their domain with google and get easy/unlimited ddns.
You can also host your zone with Hurricane Electric and skip the part about paying a small yearly fee to Google.
Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
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Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#52I have my own domain and run a Cloudflare Workers endpoint that updates a DNS record. It’s quite simple to run one’s own dDNS service.
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#53I'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?
Because then you have a ticking time problem. Some automatic service might just silently start failing deep in your tech stack. And yes, you can monitor that. But then your monitoring software might fail, etc.
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#54For some time I kept getting SMS phishing mails with duckdns.org urls here in Japan.
DuckDNS is sadly often abused for malware and phishing.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
How long does it take to propagate the changed IP?
Generally a few seconds from my experience with outside friends using services I've set up.
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#56I 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)
google already does enough atrocious things, you don't have to make them up.
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#57I 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)
Google became the owner of Duck.com back in 2010 when it acquired On2 Technologies, a company formerly known as The Duck Corporation. It gifted the domain to DuckDuckGo in 2018
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#58That's great and all but since dyndns providers are hardcoded in my router this does not help.
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#59Be aware that Facebook Messenger blocks URLs with duckdns.org as unsafe links. The workaround is probably to find a cheap domain (not free, these are blocked as well) and attach it using CNAME.
Re: Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
#60Just curious, how does this project pays bills?
It's not expensive to run a project like this to begin with but donations.