I’ve been using duckdns for a few years and I was happy until today. It is not working and I want a backup.

Which do you recommend?

  • azdleEnglish
    130·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    IMO, the best free option is https://freedns.afraid.org/. The biggest downside of that one is that you have to login a couple times a year (IIRC?) to keep it active. I actually still use this even though I have a paid domain, I just CNAME my real domains to the afraid dynamic name. That was easier than changing the config every time I become unhappy with my domain registrar and have to reconfigure everything after swapping.

    • HopfgeistEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

      I also use this, and it works great. Another downside is that when using the free service, others can just use subdomains of your registered domains. You can always deny it, but you have to do it manually. With the premium subscriptions you can prevent that automatically for a number of domains, depending on how much you pay.

    • owenEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

      Same. I actually started donating monthly because I like it so much

  • lntlEnglish
    90·
    9 months ago

    i use namecheap’s dynamic dns with a curl cronjob

    haven’t had a problem since setup 7 years ago

    • noUsernamesLef7English
      30·
      9 months ago

      Namecheap + the dynamic DNS client in pfSense. No issues sinve I set it up years ago.

      Before that it was a cron job that updated through the google domains api.

    • dinckelEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      Same here. Got a Namecheap domain, that I’ve eventually migrated to a Cloudflare nameserver. Updates are ran by ddclient on the server itself

  • retroEnglish
    70·
    8 months ago

    Cloudflare with CloudflareDDNS

  • infeeeeeEnglish
    60·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    Duckdns is working for me, wdym, what happened?

    • 9point6English
      40·
      9 months ago

      Working fine for me too, What’s happened OP?

      • rambosEnglish
        30·
        9 months ago

        Same question, what happened? Mine is running for bit more than a year

        • gccalvinEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          I’ve had issues with duckdns failing over the past year or so (their server going down - outages). I guess it could be something on my side, but it happened often enough that I switched to my own domain. Haven’t had any outages since, and I can use subdomains now for routing.

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    50·
    9 months ago

    I’d recommend getting your own domain name and using a full DNS service that has an API. deSEC.io is free and well supported by common tools like ddclient, but you can also use their API directly with one curl command.

    Or you can use your registrar’s DNS servers if they have an API, that would also be free most likely since it would be included in the service.

    gandi.net has excellent DNS services included with domains but they’ve recently pumped up their renewal prices and now you have to dig a bit through their offer to find something below $20. There’s .fr, .gdn, .gr, .in and .uk domains (including .me.uk).

    I’d recommend an EU country like .fr or .gr if you’re an EU citizen because then their registry data falls under GDPR, plus most EU ccTLD registries are private by default. Otherwise .in also has good whois privacy and is the cheapest.

  • H3‎English
    20·
    9 months ago

    goip.de

    set it up once, never need to touch it again

  • fossphiEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    Heard good things about porkbun with ddclient

  • huhnodereiEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    Have never used free dyndns services myself. But if I would have to choose one right now I would give ipv64.net a try. Dennis has some excellent (german) YT tutorials and constantly improves his services.

  • MaggiWuerzeEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    Currently using DynV6. works nicely and you can federate your domain to them if you have nameserver control at your domain holder