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Dyn Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts for Dynamic DNS
- zokier 13y agoOh, I remember using dyndns back in the day. It was remarkably convenient to run Apache on my desktop computer, I could just drop files to my www directory and have link ready to be pasted on IRC. Of course that was way before Dropbox et al came to be.
- lakwn 13y agoI used to pay for a subscription, but I canceled it because I was using it for two hosts only. They are now offering a subscription for 20 dollars, which I think is very expensive considering the two hosts I need. Oh, well. Time to move on.
- yebyen 13y agoI have been a happy, non-paying customer of ZoneEdit.com for years. I am looking for current information on their free offering and coming up empty, but if the pricing page is complete, your two zones would cost you $12/year each there. I think that the offering when I signed up was two free zones. Now it looks like you can get one for free, unless I'm just grandfathered in.
- Bootvis 13y agoI'm very happy with FreeDNS[1]. It just works (never had a problem) and they have nice domains. [1]: https://freedns.afraid.org/ https://freedns.afraid.org/
- htk 13y agoNice tip. If anyone here is using DD-WRT, take a look at these instructions before trying to set up your freedns subdomain (needs a token instead of login/password): extracted from http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Custom_DDNS_settings_using_embedded_inadyn_-_HOWTO http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Cus... Go to http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ and login with your normal username and password for the freedns service. Click "Direct URL" on the domain you would like to be set to your WAN IP address. Copy everything from the right of the ? in the address bar. Router Settings: DDNS Service: freedns.afraid.org User Name: USERNAME Password: PASSWORD Host Name: yourdomain.com,What_You_Copied_Before Force Update Interval 10 (Note: Since afraid.org doesn't require a username and password when doing a "wget-style" update, you can also just do the following to keep from exposing your username and password: User Name: guest Password: guest)
- nowlnowl 13y agoI am also a happy user. *.moooo.com is priceless
- mzs 13y agoThanks for the recommendation, I use no-ip ( http://freedns.no-ip.com/ http://freedns.no-ip.com/ ) did not know about FreeDNS back when I set it up when dyndns got annoying, but no-ip has been fine.
- zackboe 13y agoAfraid.org works by allowing users to mark their domains as 1) public, allowing anyone to attach a subdomain to it at will, 2) private, allowing anyone to request a subdomain, and 3) Stealth, a premium feature allowing you to hide your domains from the registry altogether. I've been happily using it for years, and Josh is very responsive if you have problems or questions.
- josteink 13y agoI recently moved to dnsdynamic.com. Mostly because 1. it's free and 2. it was one of the listed providers supported by my OpenWRT router[1]. While I'm not against paying for services per se, I didn't really feel like one simple host was worth shelling out $20 for on an annual, perpetual basis. [1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/ddns.client http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/ddns.client
- edent 13y agoWhat's disturbing is the number of products which have dyn.com integration built in. Nearly every ADSL modem I've had in the last 10 years has had a username/password field for their service. It would have been great if they could have monetized that existing base - instead, hundreds of thousands of users will wake up one day next month and things will have mysteriously stopped working.
- josteink 13y agoDyn started warning about this a year ago already [1]. This is not an overnight announcement. [1] Text-content of email in my archive dated May 10th 2013. http://pastebin.com/r6JQxU8i http://pastebin.com/r6JQxU8i
- tveita 13y agoIt would make sense to have a standardised protocol, so you could just enter a URL, username and password. That way any provider could offer it as a service without custom support in each router. I think RFC 2136 may support this, but it's fairly complex and needs a separately defined method of authentication, so it's no wonder home routers don't let you set this up. http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2136.txt http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2136.txt
- makomk 13y agoI think this is their way of monetizing that existing base: pay us money or the only dynamic DNS option your router supports will stop working. Most of the damn things don't let you run your own DDNS server either.
- mynegation 13y agoI was a free-rider of their free tier for a while, but I totally understand and respect their decision. My main problem is not that I do not want to pay 20-30$ a year for a dynamic DNS, my problem is that it is either one of their domains or I have to bring domain services to them. I own a VPS, I own a domain and I was wondering if I could do something myself. Does anyone have any recommendations how to set up DIY dynamic DNS? I would like home.mydomainexample.com or even home.homelan.mydomainexample.com to point to my home dynamic IP.
- z92 13y agoI have setup my own DDNS server, in two Digital Ocean boxes. - You have to run your own DNS service. - And setup a PHP page on the server, which when called will update the zone file. But the next problem is elsewhere. All routers seem to have hardcoded DDNS server names. Therefore even if you install your own service, there is no way you can call it from a router. It would have been better if routers had accepted a "DDNS protocol" + "a server IP" instead. I have my home linux server. But I can't share this solution with my friends that don't run home servers.
- josteink 13y agoUsing open-source router-firmware fixes most of these pains and gives you the freedom you want. For everything and not just dynamic DNS. Both OpenWRT and DDWRT are reputable firmwares which supports a wide array of routers.
- pritambaral 13y agoI wonder if the router would resolve dyn.com (or similar hardcoded domains) through the user's resolver/hosts file.. You can see where I'm going. Personally, I always pick routers I can run a custom firmware on (have run {DD-,Open}WRT). DD-WRT has an additional field for a single url to update IP. I use namecheap's API endpoint there.
- zokier 13y agoBIND has built-in DDNS functionality, so you don't need extra PHP scripts.
- motters 13y agoAny of the free Dyn users which this affects: move to freedns.
- Osmium 13y agoWhat's the easiest way to run your own dynamic DNS service with your own domain? I'm guessing something like Amazon's Route 53 with an updater script, such as https://gist.github.com/natlownes/2061658 https://gist.github.com/natlownes/2061658
- meshko 13y agoEarly donors still get their free account as promised. Faith in humanity restored. I am proud to be part of the early DynDNS history in this small way.
- stephenr 13y agohttp://zonomi.com http://zonomi.com may be useful for the "i have a domain but don't want to DIY a DynDNS replacement" crowd. A single zone with up to 10 records can be hosted for free, and one of the features is a simeple GET based update API for DynDNS style operation.
- yabatopia 13y agoTwo of the default options on my router are DynDNS and NoIP. They both have paid plans. Is there anyone with experience with both providers who can compare the pros and cons of these services?
- chrissnell 13y agoRackspace offers DNS with all cloud accounts and doesn't charge for it and 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.
- nextweek2 13y agoIn my experience with the UK rackspace DNS is that the TTL can only be as low as 600 seconds and will automatically reset to 24 hours after 7 days. You could be left with a long window before your hosts IP gets updated by your local DNS cache.