Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.
Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.
Wow much detail. You’re gonna get so much help.
Actually I did. Not thanks to you though.
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.
Just a practice I’ve had over the years with domains: separate your registrar and your DNS. If one goes down, or out of business, you can fix it if you still control the other and its accessible. If you have both of them in one place, it’s really hard to get that domain transferred.
Ddns-updater and porkbun.
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.
What do you mean?
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.
I use http://www.duckdns.org/
Me too. I use uptime kuma to send the api request. then I also get uptime status 🙂
That’s a great idea, I hadn’t thought of that
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terraform and AWS route 53 on a self hosted gitlab pipeline.
Desec + Nginx Proxy Manager as a reverse proxy. Solves ddns and https with a letsencrypt wildcard cert.
Hadn’t heard about deSec until now, seems to be run by some cool privacy minded folks in Germany:
I personally use https://desec.io
I use ddclient but in a docker container. Works great with minimal config
afraid still works like a charm. cloudflare is ok. duckdns is cool.
https://www.cloudns.net/ Makes dynamic DNS very easy.
Any registrar worth using has an API for updating DNS entries.
I just found this with a quick search: https://github.com/qdm12/ddns-updater
I would recommend OVH for DNS, they have an API and are on the list for that tool. Also you can use the API to get lets encrypt certificates
Looks good. Thanks!
exactly. I literally have a bash script that calls the API triggered by cron every 30 minutes. That’s it. Are people seriously using a freaking docker container for this?
It’s easy to set up and also keeps a history
I just dump the changes with timestamps to a text file. Notifications for IP changes get sent to matrix after the DNS record is updated.
Ah, a history would be nice. I’ve been thinking of keeping some stats to monitor when the connection goes down, and how often my IP changes.
Fortunately I’ve kept the same IP since i changed ISPs a few months ago.
Personally I still think docker is overkill for something that can be done with a bash script. But I also use a Pi 4 as my home server, so I need to be a little more scrupulous of CPU and RAM and storage than most :-)
Even if it is docker it’s still a bash script or something in the container right? Or are people referring to the docker CLI directly changing DNS records somehow?
My best guess is the reason to involve docker would be if you already have a cluster of containers as part of the project. Then you can have a container that does nothing but manage the DNS.
