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What'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/p
by edent 13y ago
What'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.