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Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by damian2000 »

archagon wrote: post #78
zdw wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel sorry for people whose routers aren't running OpenWRT, PFSense, or some other easily upgradable modern firmware that's free of backdoors.

Actually, I've been wondering lately, just how common are router compromises? I ask because I have a Synology unit that was infected with some pretty insidious malware just by being out on the open internet and having a slightly out-of-date OS version. Since it's now easily possible to scan the entire IPv4 address space, it makes me wonder if having out-of-date firmware would basically guarantee a hacked router these…

If it is common, its likely those doing it want it to remain a secret... so not sure its possible to get a good estimate.

Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by solnyshok »

goombastic wrote: post #84

The real problem is routers have hardwired dyndns settings; in many cases with no other options.

Actually, there are programs you can install on a pc behind your router, that will perform the same function, i.e. Pinging some dyndns provider other than router's builtin one. i think I used one by namecheap in windows exe form.

Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by davidu »

unreal37 wrote: post #28
emptybits wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What hostility or ridiculousness did you see? I've been on Dyn forever, as a free user to keep a host entry for one remote, nonprofit dynamic-IP server. Starting exactly a year ago, once per month they sent me an email with a link I'd click to keep my free hostname(s) active. Seemed reasonable.

I used to be on EasyDNS and they got acquired by DynDNS many years back. They really have been trying to kick off the free users for a long time. Anyone who's hung on til now is a survivor. They dropped from 5 free hostnames to 2, in 2010. And they have been enforcing this "log into your account monthly" since at least that time. Not 1 year, but at least 4 years or more. That's how I lost my free hostname - because I…

everydns, not easydns.

Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by MichaelGG »

greyskull wrote: post #75
specialp wrote: post #58

Hurricane electric offers free dynDNS, free DNS, and also free IPv6 tunneling. https://dns.he.net/ You can even set up an IPv6 tunnel for a dynamic IP and have it update dynamically.

+1 to this. I've only touched very basic usage, but it was easy. And it's HE... big name and comes with reliability.

>And it's HE... big name and comes with reliability

Our experience is the opposite. LA to Denver and at least once a week Nagios goes batshit because packetloss pops up to 8% on and off for hours. Partly this is because our unfortunate choice of ISP, IPTP, doesn't understand how BGP works and localprefs HE over everything. But consensus seems to be that they're just overloaded.

I suppose selling for a third or less of other ISPs tends to increase network demand.

Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by icoloma »

iancarroll wrote: post #69
chrissnell wrote: post #48

Rackspace offers DNS with all cloud accounts and doesn't charge for it. As far as I know, you can sign up for a cloud account and not actually purchase any services, though I would probably put some files in Cloud Files so you're at least paying them something to keep the account around. You can update your records via their API or via their control panel and there are no per-change or per-domain fees. You're getting…

Route 53 is also really cheap if you're an AWS kind of guy/gal for 50 cents a domain. The usage charges are beyond low (think 1 cent) for smaller sites.

Has anyone compared Route53 with the new Google Cloud DNS? https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/

I'm interested in differences feature-wise.

Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by darklajid »

darklajid wrote: post #52
nodata wrote: post #6

http://en.gandi.net/ offers free secondary dns with all domains you buy/renew through them.

Given that I just left gandi after 2 days: Please be sure that you want to do business with them and that you've thoroughly checked their offerings. I'm kinda guilty on part two and can answer part one with a resounding 'no'. Their no bullshit claim didn't apply here, I cannot and won't recommend them.

Following up on my experience:

Was looking for a registrar for my domains that supports DNSSEC (for the TLDs that support it, obviously) and wanted to leave my previous (really cheap one).

I heard about their 'no bullshit' slogan and their rather good reputation.

Searching online confirmed that

- Gandi supports DNSSEC for the domains I care about (.sh, .de) [1]

- Gandi supports all my (cc)TLDs (.name, .de, .sh, .net) [2]

- Gandis prices are reasonable [2]

Pay attention: [2] lists all their supported domains with prices. If you expand "Asia/Oceania" you'll find .sh for example. With a price. What isn't obvious right away unless you're into hovering madly: Each row is a link. That's important.

So, prices good, good reputation, dnssec support -> Let's transfer all my domains in one go. Payed, worked - but the .sh domain failed with no sensible error message at all. Retried. Contacted customer support and waited. Meanwhile I was billed for the rest and parts of my domains were transfered already. At no point I got a reasonable explanation in their interface. CSR replies "Yeah, bad luck. That's a corporate domain. We have a list of domains for corporations only (now go and click a link on [2]), you'd have to talk to the corporate sales team". Contacted them, waited, waited, random bullshit (sorry, with a slogan like that..) as reply ("Just subscribe to our corporate services for a while, register the domains while they're active" - "Yeah, I'm a private person and your website doesn't let me do that" - "Awwwwww, bad luck then").

Denied my incoming transfers, moved the ones that already made it out. My Gandi account is useless and empty. The denied transfers though? They refunded that part of my bill - to my "Gandi prepaid account"...

Short version:

- crappy UI

- half of their TLD support is for corporate clients only, "PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY" won't help (I tried)

- the support wasn't helpful (enough) and the corporate sales guys confused - they obviously didn't look at my account even once before answering

- the refund is a joke

I'm glad I left early.

Sorry for the rant, this is 'fresh' (i.e. the refund happened yesterday, the rest of the ordeal just last week) and so I'm still a bit agitated. I really tried to like them and don't think that I was overly complicated in my requirements.

1: https://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/dnssec/deployment

2: https://www.gandi.net/domain

Re: DynDNS ends free services

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Post by darklajid »

oijaf888 wrote: post #62
darklajid wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that I just left gandi after 2 days: Please be sure that you want to do business with them and that you've thoroughly checked their offerings. I'm kinda guilty on part two and can answer part one with a resounding 'no'. Their no bullshit claim didn't apply here, I cannot and won't recommend them.

What was your issue? I've contemplated consolidating all of my domains/certs with them and have no issues so far but maybe I'm missing something?

See above - especially if you're not incorporated (Granted, on this board that's probably the minority)
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