On 2020-01-07 6:08 p.m., Rick Leir wrote:
Barry
Another possibility, perhaps not something that you would consider. With
a cable internet service it seems that your IP rarely changes. So you
update your DNS manually, and you set up decent monitoring so that you
will know quickly when the IP changes. And it is free! But clearly if
you had paying customers you would reconsider, and shell out for a
static IP.
Cheers -- Rick
You don't need a static IP, just a DNS provider that provides an API you
can use to automatically update your DNS records. If your router can't
do it, there are scripts/programs that do this for you for all manner of
DNS providers, like ddclient[1]. Just set that up on a cheap Raspberry
Pi and you're all set.
[1] https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient
On January 7, 2020 3:31:44 PM EST, Barry McLarnon <bm [ at ] topazdesigns [ dot ] com>
wrote:
[...]
The freedns service looked promising, until I noticed the fatal flaw: to
get the free service, you must agree to share your domain and allow
others to create subdomains from it. That's a definite showstopper. To
eliminate that limitation, you must sign up for a service that costs
$60/year (presumably $US), which is way too steep for the service provided.
I think you are misunderstanding. The shared pool consists of domains
that domain owners add to FreeDNS. If you add your own domain (that you
registered) to FreeDNS, it goes into the shared pool unless you set it
as "stealth" (which you can only do with a premium subscription).
You'll be creating a subdomain under someone else's domain in the shared
pool. Let's say you want foo.strangled.net. Now, it's true that someone
else could create bar.foo.strangled.net, because that is also a
subdomain of strangled.net, and FreeDNS allows any user to create any
subdomain under strangled.net. It just happens to also be a subdomain of
your subdomain. That's just how DNS works; it's a hierarchy. But who
would do that, why would they do that, and how would it affect you
anyway? And unlike the shared pool of domains, your subdomain is not
going to be listed anywhere.
I'd say just use FreeDNS or get yourself a domain name. They're not that
expensive anyway. I recommend gandi.net. They're an honest, no-bullshit,
free software supporting company.
--
John Brooks
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