Conversation

Notices

1. Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 04:24:50 UTC Temporary Marjolein
   Hmm - sometimes sleep brings new ideas. This just popped up: does Dynamic DNS actually work with just a subdomain (i.e. main domain assigned - normally - to one address, subdomain assigned - with DynDNS - to another)??
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 04:46:33 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

     in reply to
     @mk Oh yes, that's a pretty normal use case. Usually a normal DNS hosting provider will let you do this. Details depend on provider.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 05:52:54 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     in reply to

     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke great! I'll see if my Domain registrar will do it, but I know Hurricane Electric support it (I'm using them for 'backup' DNS).
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 07:20:20 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     in reply to

     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke I just found out that you can also do a self-hosted Dynamic DNS from Linode: "Dynamic DNS Using The Linode API" https://travismaynard.com/writing/dynamic-dns-using-the-linode-api - a nice write-up that also explains how Dynamic DNS actually "works". Sweet! #networking #selfhosted #dynamicdns #dns #linode
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) likes this.
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 07:23:53 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     in reply to
     I could set up the "local" cron job for this on the NAS, and have it automatically "switch over" when I move the box to Groningen; I should set up port forwarding on the router before the move so it would be seamless. :)
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 07:39:20 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

     in reply to
     @mk "DynDNS recently ended their free services."
     
     :-O
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 07:43:49 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

     in reply to
     @mk "a self-hosted Dynamic DNS from Linode", rather, Linode-hosted. They're the DNS hoster. I thought you meant a DNS server in a VPS.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 07:44:08 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

     in reply to
     @mk Either way: Yay, problem solved!
   • Bob Mottram (bob@primatemind.info)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 07:44:43 UTC Bob Mottram

     in reply to

     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke @mk I think that was a while ago. I initially started off on DynDNS in 2010.
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 09:33:25 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

     in reply to

     • Bob Mottram
     @bob @mk Yes, the article is two years old. DynDNS is just such a staple of internet life. It's the end of an era ... and their relevance.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 11:58:27 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     in reply to

     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke that's what I thought at first as well ;-) I'm still new-ish to this stuff but I'm learning fast. So: Linode-hosted, self-defined. Or something like that. :D
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) likes this.