• ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I put the curl command to update my duckdns IP in cron about 13 years ago, and have never needed to touch it once.

    It’s just worked for me

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        The ip shouldnt change unless the server is down for a period of time and the ip is dynamic.

        If it is returning OK then it sounds like duckdns is working as intended

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
    3 months

    I used to just use a script with cron to update Cloudflare DNS records but these days I don’t screw around with exposing anything to the public internet directly, I just use Tailscale.

    • HotDog7@feddit.onlineEnglish
      3 months

      Is there a difference between using Tailscale and Wireguard? I already have a Wireguard setup and want to know what benefits it has over Wireguard.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
        3 months

        They’re similar but mainly Tailscale arranges WireGuard tunnels between peers. There are tons of useful features around that functionality like being able to route specific traffic through specific hosts (“nodes” using “app connectors”); it’s even better at finding a way out of hostile networks using relays.

        Just as an example I typically use my VPS as an “exit node” so that all my traffic routes through it (which does a ton of tunnel hopping through commercial VPNs) while my wife isn’t into that at all, but both of us have Tailscale on our devices so when either of us accesses Home Assistant it’s routed directly to the host hosting it.

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgEnglish
    3 months

    I had used duckdns for a while back in the day. Always worked great.

    These days I have a domain at namecheap which provides a DynDNS feature as well so I’m using that.

  • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    I have dyndns. I don’t recommend them, unless a coworker just gave you their lifetime pro account for free.

    Thanks Roody, wherever you are!

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Duck DNS works great… Most of the time. If you cannot accept downtime multiple times a year, get yourself a domain and a service like cloud flare instead. DuckDNS is free and you get more than you pay for, but the bar is low when the cost is zero.

    • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
      3 months

      Or just use two dns providers. I have duckdns and desec. That latter seems to be a bit faster and has’t had any downtime for me so far.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Yeah DuckDNS gave me many false positive outages where its resolution failed, for multiple half-days every year I used it (5yrs+).

      I moved to the afraid.org and its been solid, if anyone’s looking for another free service - only cost is you have to log in once every six months to validate your account is not dormant. They have a paid tier which gives more features (that most home users will never need), and that allows the guy running it to fund a very reliable service.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I’m surprised the amount of people saying they have had no issues with DucksDNS. I’ve used it for about five years and had issues on and off with it being unresponsive many times.

      Gave up and moved to afraid.org about a year back and that’s been a very solid service ever since.

    • richmondez@lemdro.idEnglish
      3 months

      Can you do letsencrypt dns challenges against the free tier now? This was one reason I moved to duckdns. Plus I kept forgetting to login to keep the account alive so it would just stop working until I logged in and reactivated. Duckdns do emulate that experience with their random downtime though 😂

  • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I got my domain through namecheap. So, I just use them, they have a dynamicdns implementation. I setup a namecheapddns docker container that auto updates mine.

    • epyon22@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      Yep same DDClient is super simple to setup with name cheap. Followed ip address changes with very little if any down time. I’ve never noticed between ip changes.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Same! Except I use windows and they have a small app that you can install and run in the background which will update the IP if needed.

      I also used duckdns for years before moving to this and I never had any issues using that either. It was the same thing, small app that ran on your machine and you needed the token and it just worked.

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3 months

    DuckDNS had been unreliable when I used it, but it’s been a while. I swapped over to desec.io but their signups aren’t always open. Can highly recommend them though, and they offer many paths to update the IP, including DynDNS(2) protocol or just ddclient.

    Also works with certbot for Let’s encrypt certificates using dns challenge.

    • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infoEnglish
      3 months

      Same. I have a router with OPNsense. In the “Dynamic DNS” section I create a “Custom” service with the DynDNS2 protocol. I type in update.dedyn.io as the server address. You need to also get an api key from the desec.io web panel that you input into the username and password fields.

      Now everytime the router’s WAN ip changes it automatically edits the DNS zone. So instead of going “your server -> DDNS provider -> DNS CNAME record” it’s just “your server -> DNS A record”

      I also have a separate token for my web proxy (traefik) so that it can edit the DNS records to get let’s encrypt certificates through dns challenge as you describe.

      As for the desec signups in my case one DNS zone was no problem, but for a second one I needed to e-mail them:

      Hello, would it be possible for my newly created account to get one more domain on the account please? I have two personal domains and it would be great if I could keep them both under deSEC

      Hi [me], Sure! The limit is mostly there to remind users to enable DNSSEC, but it looks like you’re already doing that (at your old provider).

      They asked me to (voluntarily) donate, which I did too.

    • sakphul@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3 months

      Me too. Draytek Router automatically updates the IP. Set it up once and it is working since 2-3 years (don’t exactly rember when I set it up).

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I have been using duckdns for a few years without issues. It should be simple enough , just set up a cron job with your details as listed on their site where you configure it. This keeps your dns entry up to date.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I’ve used no-ip.com for years without issue.

    My NAS supports a few services out of the box. If you have anything like that, see what they support natively first.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 months

    DuckDNS was resolving slow as hell for me so I ended up picking up a cheap domain from Porkbun, they got API access and it seems most of the ddns tools support them too

  • pleksi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    I’ve been using desec.io since it’s european, non profit and privacy oriented. Bring your own domain though. Works well, although my caddy plugin has problems getting certs sometimes. My pangolin instance never has any issues getting certs so might be caddy desec plugin specific.

    • nublug@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      desec does offer one free subdomain, and you can use as many nested subdomains as you want for your services. do note you’ll need a wildcard cert for each subdomain level: *.sub.dedyn.io and *.app.sub.dedyn.io if a service needs it’s own subdomains for apis and whatnot.

      edit: also a note for any fellow noobs like me it’s deDYN.io not deSEC.io on your account/subdomain. it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize my mistake trying to sign up with every subdomain i tried saying it exists already.