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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 cdkee »

the_duke wrote: post #42
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not a fan of Oracle by any measure, but what you are stating just is not true. MySql is going strong and is very actively developed. (even if Oracle is predictably trying to have more features in the Enterprise Edition). I'd still always choose Postgres, but that's besides the point. Java has undergone very positive modernization and change over the last couple of years, following a long period of stagnation, and…

On top of that, Oracle still makes hardware. I don't think they can be blamed for stagnating interest in that area.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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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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Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by henryfjordan »

kerouanton wrote: post #58

I didn't renew my Dyn subscrition a few months ago, considering they had increased their pricing model and offered nothing new. And being owned by "evil" Oracle didn't help. Today it's relatively easy to build a self-hosted dynamic DNS equivalent, e.g. https://github.com/dprandzioch/docker-ddns so I'm in the process of solving the issue like this.

isn't the point of dynamic DNS that it's not self-hosted? It should be on a static IP somewhere outside the network/IP you want to monitor.

I run a server at home and I can always just go update my DNS records to some new IP but the catch is I cannot ssh home without knowing the new IP address, hence the point of a dynamic DNS service.

If you host that in the same network, what's the point? You lose access to it too.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by MrStonedOne »

the_duke wrote: post #42
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not a fan of Oracle by any measure, but what you are stating just is not true. MySql is going strong and is very actively developed. (even if Oracle is predictably trying to have more features in the Enterprise Edition). I'd still always choose Postgres, but that's besides the point. Java has undergone very positive modernization and change over the last couple of years, following a long period of stagnation, and…

Mysql is dead, long live mariadb

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by toast0 »

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…

I work for a Dyn Enterprise DNS customer, so I read the Enterprise FAQ which says:

> If you’re a Dyn Managed DNS customer and minimal downtime is acceptable, follow the instructions above to migrate your services to OCI.

> If you’re a Dyn Managed DNS customer and downtime is not acceptable, please check back with us in August when we are planning on having a migration tool available to help avoid downtime.

We happen to be wrapping up a migration to a self-hosted solution, but we chose Dyn because we didn't find "minimal" downtime to be something generally acceptable. [edited this sentence for clarity]

For personal use, it's worth checking out free DNS service from Hurricane Electric, https://dns.he.net/ it includes Dynamic DNS, and Hurricane Electric is probably not going anywhere. I'm not affiliated, but I use their secondaries for my personal domains.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by edaemon »

They are also completely ending support for DNS in mainland China:

>Please note, however, that the China Network is being retired. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the China Network will no longer be available, and you will need to find another provider.

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