Which Dynamic DNS Service are you using?

Bristlerock, 10 months ago

DNS-O-Matic (recommended by CloudFlare, among others) combined with SWAG and Authelia will handle dynamic DNS, reverse proxying, SSL certificates, and MFA. SWAG (nginx, Let's Encrypt and Certbot) and Authelia (MFA) run nicely in a 2 container Docker stack.

Mine have been running for ~18 months on my NAS, though I have a fixed IP so no longer use a DDNS provider.

RedditExodus, 10 months ago

Afraid.org is what I've been using ever since dyndns started charging big prices for what used to be free.

bane_killgrind, 10 months ago

Freedns.afraid.org

Very happy.

invaliduser, 10 months ago

your domain provider probably has an api to update dns records i use cloudflare with their api because then i can hide my ip behind their proxy or if i don’t have a public ip i can use their tunnels

Hopfgeist, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Aside from a brief scare a couple of months ago, when the owner/operator was unreachable and the configuration interface and some automatic update paths were not working, I have been using afraid.org, and it has proven to be a stellar service, and free for basic needs.

DunkinCoder, 10 months ago

I use this container, favonia/cloudflare-ddns, for Cloudflare and my domain.

betternotbigger, 10 months ago

If you only need public access to things like HTTP or SSH you don’t necessarily need to run dynamic ip and just setup Cloudflare Tunnels. So far I haven’t needed to put anything public that doesn’t run on the provided tunnels.

valkyre09, 10 months ago

Cloudflare tunnels is the way to go for small self hosted content. You’re hiding behind their ddos protection and your IP / location remains hidden from end users.

korewafap, 10 months ago

Does it work for RDP?

starkcommando, 10 months ago

Where are the settings for these tunnels located in Cloudflare? I was looking around the website last night but didn’t have any luck.

betternotbigger, 10 months ago

Look under the Zero Trust category and then once there you’ll see another menu item called Access. There you’ll find Tunnels, in addition to Tunnels you can add an Application in the same Access menu to create policies that only allow certain clients to connect.

IcerOut, 10 months ago

Before, I used to use duckdns. Completely free and super simple
Nowadays I just have a docker container that updates my A records on my domain directly through namesilo's API. Took like 5 mins to set up the config

problembasedperson, 10 months ago

dedyn.io

667, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

AdGuard! They even have installable profiles for Apple devices, so I get ad blocking even on mobile!

mb, DDNS. nvm

Virkkunen, 10 months ago

OP is asking about DDNS instead of DNS. They want a fixed address to their ever changing IP address.

ComMcNeil, 10 months ago

I use cloudflare and have a dyndns client running on my synology nas

elscallr, 10 months ago

I just have a cron script running on a machine that does something like this every 10 seconds

C_IP=`dig +short my.domain`
IP=`curl https://api.ipify.org`
if(C_IP != IP) {
    updateRoute53(IP)
}

This is just for my main home server. Gets the job done because if it's out of date for a few seconds nothing matters.

TX, 10 months ago

@starkcommando https://www.nsupdate.info/

sam, 10 months ago

I’ve been using freedns.afraid.org for about a year now.

lntl, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Does your domain provider have a DDNS service? I buy my domains from namecheap.com and use their DDNS service for exactly what you’re describing.

starkcommando, 10 months ago

I have NameCheap as well. I found their Windows client after I made this post. I’m still curious is there are better services out there. It seems Cloudflare may have the best tools for security for a webserver, i.e. hiding the real IP address.

porksoda, 10 months ago

I use namecheap and dd client. Happy to share my config file if you need if.