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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.
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…
Does this mean Let's Encrypt dns-01 challenges could be automated?
[edit: Oh the API only allows changing an A record, for dynamic DNS, not updating anything else in the zone. That makes more sense.]
New to this. "Practically", it seems the same as ngrok or tor onion services. Is that right?
Why AWS? How about we start building services that work anywhere instead of targeting a platform owned by a company that avoids paying billions in taxes? Edit - I'll leave my original comment up but I originally thought this was a service that users could deploy themselves into their own AWS accounts which it is not. It is, as it says, a DDNS service which is free. The fact that it's hosted in AWS should be neither h…
It kind of gives it a sense of professionalism for marketing purposes.
The only possible downside is that you end up with a url with "duckdns.org" in it, but I don't mind
Something that:
* Lets you set up a domain with a single command
* Handles security for you. There shouldn't be any manual admin needed to make a secure context site
* Works offline on the LAN if possible, and on Yggdrasil meshes.
I should be able to buy a device, plug it in, then scan the QR code on it's display and be instantly taken to its website, no setup or account creation.
Unfortunately the web blocks all insecure requests from within secure contexts, and has no MDNS type functionality, so building a P2P solution with service workers or something is very hard/impossible.
DuckDNS is really almost there. It's the security that makes it hard, Let's Encrypt is not exactly consumer grade.
This has nothing in common with DuckDuckGo? DDG (unfortunately) is bigger and bigger with every year. They are developing desktop browser, email proxy etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd lunched DDGDNS.
Why is it unfortunate that DDG is bigger and bigger every year?
I'd like to think DDG were too principled to do this, but money can really direct moral compasses in large enough quantities.
New to this. "Practically", it seems the same as ngrok or tor onion services. Is that right?
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
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so I mentioned the same thing, though one thing to note (which I doubt duck dns helps with either). Is one can't use google's dynamic dns with AAAA records (i.e. ipv6). Personally, I think this is massive oversight on their part.
I have dynamic A and AAAA records with Google Domains. I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you. Here's the relevant portion of my ddclient config: protocol=googledomains login=XXXXXXX password=XXXXXXX host4.mydomain.com protocol=googledomains use=web web=checkipv6.dyndns.org/ ipv6=yes login=XXXXXXXC password=XXXXXXX host6.mydomain.com
when I go into the web ui for my domain and go to create a dynamic dns name, it only gives me an option for only an A record.
My "guess" is that your solution is to create a normal AAAA record and ddclient can update that record with the info retrieved from checkipv6.dyndns.org? so not using google's UI to setup a AAAA dyn dns record? and my guess is that username/password scoping that you got for host4 worked the same for the "fake static" AAAA record?
or you could have the ability to create AAAA dyn dns records via the UI and for some reason I'm just blind.
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.