Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.
terraform and AWS route 53 on a self hosted gitlab pipeline.
Cloudflare DDNS updated by ddclient on my OpnSense router. Cloudflare happens to be my current domain registrar. Honestly, my IPv4 doesn’t change that often. And when I used to be on Comcast, they assigned a block of IPv6 addresses and the router dealt with that. Unfortunately, I now have Quantum Fiber who only assign a single IPv6 address, so I gave up on IPv6 for now.
Afraid has a curl update. Cron job. It’s that simple.
I use ddclient but in a docker container. Works great with minimal config
I solve it by paying way too much for a block of static IPs.
Way too much for sure.
Just the business internet to get the foot in the door for a static IP 5x’s the cost of my Internet.
It’s actually cheaper to just have DC IPs and proxy through hosted containers. Which is kind of crazy.
Negative aspect is that DC IPs aren’t treated very nice.
Yeah this has been the biggest problem with hosting. For SMTP to work outbound you gotta have a good static IP. Everything else can be DDNSed. So either you get a business class connection or proxy through a VPS front end.
My ip updates maybe once every three months or so, but what i did was just write a script that checks the current ip and updates the domain registrar. My domain is on cloud flare, and they have an API through which I can do it. It’s literally one POST request. There are solutions out there but I wanted a really simple solution I fully understand so I just did this. Script runs in cron every few hours and that’s it.
afraid still works like a charm. cloudflare is ok. duckdns is cool.
Desec + Nginx Proxy Manager as a reverse proxy. Solves ddns and https with a letsencrypt wildcard cert.
Have done it via bash scripts for years. Never had a problem. Since a few months i use https://github.com/qdm12/ddns-updater
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I would go for registering my own domain and then rent a small vps and run debian 12 server with bind9 for dns + dyndns.
If you don’t want to put the whole domain on your own name servers then you can always delegate a subdomain to the debian 12 server and run your main domain on your domain registrators name servers.edit:
If your registrar is supported the ddns-updater sounds a lot easier.
Have you heard of the kuadrant project? It is for kubernetes and has a dynamic DNS element. Kuadrant.io
Probably good, but I want to stay away from anything related to Kubernetes. My experience is that it’s an overkill black hole of constant debugging. Unfortunately. Thanks though!
Ddns-updater and porkbun.
https://www.cloudns.net/ Makes dynamic DNS very easy.
Cloudflare-ddns in docker
