Ipv64.net is an alternative, just in case you want to switch some day
I had problems with duckdns as well. Never had problems with ipv64
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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Seems to be online, but honestly duckdns isn't exceptionally reliable...
Check out hurricane electric. You can activate any A record as a DDNS record: http://i.xno.dev/u/fpaXcG.png
Once the A record is activated, they'll give you a key that you can simply update with curl or something similar. I created a function for my shell and just run it via crontab;
fn ddns { xhs -4 "https://dyn.dns.he.net/nic/update?hostname=domain.com&password=password&myip="(xhs -4 -b https://myip.addr.tools/plain) }
and then just execute:
❯ ddns
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Content-Length: 18
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:35:31 GMT
Email: DNS Administrator <[email protected]>
Expires: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:35:31 GMT
Server: dns.he.net v0.0.1
nochg {ip}
No dependencies, no software, and he.net is an ISP/Transit/COLO so they're highly available (https://he.net/Hurricane_Electric_Geographic_Network_Map.jpg). I've been using their service for 5-6 years and never been down.
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Yeah I switched to my own domain and Cloudflare some time ago because Duckdns is down too often.
freedns is good too but I ended up buying my own domain the other day for like 4 quid and now all my services get a much nicer name and unlimited DNS records
"unlimited DNS records"??
That's like saying "I bought a house and I get unlimited door opens"
If you buy a domain you have full access and control over all of it.
A .com domain should only cost around $13/yr USD, and other TLDs can be even cheaper. There's really no good reason to use some service that limits control and access just to save so little.
idk about others but at least with freedns you get 25 subdomains for free and obviously risk clashing names under the same shared domain.
Right. I'm not talking about the free service. I'm talking about the paid domain with "unlimited DNS records". That just seems so weird and kind of a red flag. It seems I can't find information about that without an account, either. Also weird and a red flag. But maybe that info is just buried in their site somewhere in the not-so-great design.
I think you misunderstood that they were citing that as a feature difference between your own domain and the free services.
Oh, maybe. It's rather confusing if that's so.