Truly free DDNS
Unfortunately, I signed up with noip.com without reading the fine print.
Yes, it is free, __BUT__ you have to confirm every month. That sounds not hard, but there is a small window during which you must confirm, like one week towards the end of the month.
There is no way I am going to keep this up with my ADHD. Also there are many times that I am offline for a week.
I was looking at other places which do not limit you like that, and so far a couple look promising:
duckdns.com
dynu.com
dynu also has a $5.00 VPS (additional 30% off for annual), 1 CPU, 2GB RAM, 20GB storage, 1TB netwrok, IP address included.
I may try the VPS when my amazon free trial expires.
Sep 24 ยท 3 weeks ago
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๐ pista ยท Sep 24 at 20:09:
freedns.afraid.org
Throw the update in your cron and forget about it. Done.
๐ ingrix ยท Sep 24 at 21:22:
If you register a domain at namecheap.com they have an API for doing dynamic IP updates - I stuck a curl command in a cron script and it has run without a hiccup for years now. I checked, and stacksmith.net is $13/yr if that tickles a fancy.
๐ RubyMaelstrom ยท Sep 25 at 04:45:
I originally started working with Namecheap for my DDNS, and they do indeed offer a free DDNS service.
Cloudflare also has free DDNS forwarding, and even free tunneling in the case that you aren't even assigned your own separate IP address by your ISP (it turns out I'm not).
๐ stack [OP] ยท Sep 25 at 13:05:
@RubyMaelstrom, I did consider tunnelling and may give it a shot -- I seem to have permanent IP addresses...
I'm recently using Alfis DNS for underground projects. It's not a 100% replacement for centralized solutions, but it is free and completely independent from them.
๐ฆ bsj38381 ยท Sep 26 at 01:59:
I may give dynu a try, since I want to use something where ai don't have to pay for anything, alongside using Caddy.
+1 for freedns.afraid.org, I've been using it for years.
๐ norayr ยท Sep 27 at 01:23:
stack, i hate to suggest this, but cloudflare has this solution called argo tunnel.
you don't even need to have a real ip.
a) you point your primary/secondary nameservers to cloudflare.
b) you install a program called cloudflared.
c) you run it, it connects to cloudflare via encrypted tunnel.
now when a request to your domain comes to cf, it forwards it to your server. so no need for real ip.
๐ norayr ยท Sep 27 at 01:28:
of course there are more details but basically that is it.
otherwise, host in yggdrasil. (:
i did this trick with cloudflare argo tunnel for a friend: his isp suddenly started blocking port 443 of the real ip the same isp provided. so friends' mastodon became unavailable.
with xmpp it would not be a problem: in dns you can write which are your s2s and c2s ports and clients and servers will check dns and know how to contact your server.
but since activity pub works via http he could not simply change ports. so we solved it with argo tunnel.
๐ stack [OP] ยท Sep 27 at 01:48:
@norayr: does that work for gemini?
๐ธ chilledfrogs ยท Sep 28 at 17:40:
FWIW, I used DuckDNS for a while, no issues, can recommend unless you need more complicated TXT records such as for mail servers
๐ norayr ยท Sep 28 at 17:41:
i think no, it's already tls, you need cloudflare spectrum, which is paid.
๐ Phosphors-ghost ยท Sep 30 at 10:37:
Really recommend your own domain if you can afford it for a variety of reasons. I use porkbun and pointed ddclient at it. Otherwise, I have used nsupdate.info and really happy with them for a free, non commercial option.
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