[aklug] Re: DynDNS no longer free

Stuff worth mentioning:

I use ngrok to set up tunnels which is sometimes more useful than a dynamic
IP. It can be 'self hosted' along with some fun DNS quirks. If you want
to roll your own tunnel server or use theirs it can be arranged either way.

I use CloudFlare for my DNS. They offer a lot of bells and whistles and
can act as a front end HTTP proxy and SSL handler which is imperative for
my webworkery. They also have an API so you can quickly update DNS
entries. It's free if you don't need the SSL bits (and some other stuff).
 It's a great service.. good company IMHO.

I've attempted to use FreeDNS and a few others out there and found them
very difficult to use. No-IP is very limited and spammy. They love to
talk to you.. they love to tell you you have limits.

I'd found a few other sites that allowed you to do dynamic DNS but forgot
to bookmark them. Some had relatively short TLDs which made me happy. I'd
be super interested in compiling a list if somebody else has started one as
well.

- Shane

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

> * Greg Schmitz <greg@amipa.org> [140408 00:22]:
> > >
> >
> >
> > Am I missing something? I run Linux and other things to do things
> > locally and frankly don't give two shits about what happens in outer
> > space. Should I shed a tear about DynDNS? I've been on this list for
> > about a year and really like everybody here - but there seems to be a
> > bent towards network shit that I could live without. Just say'n. ;)
> To each his own .... I am closed to the outside world myself, all
> of my boxes are just workstations, but that doesn't speak for
> others, like the sysadmins.
> --
> Tim
> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
> http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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Received on Tue May 6 11:18:57 2014