Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread David Guntner
[Unless there's a reason to take a reply off-list, please keep it on list so that others can follow the discussion] Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/04/2014 2:52 AM, David Guntner wrote: Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: CNAMEs are immensely helpful, but they do

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread David Guntner
Nuno Magalhães grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place. Er... mydomain.org, being a *.TLD, will

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/14 04:34, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: what you want to do is create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that points to myhostname.someddns.com. Presto! Now when you try to access your

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 08/04/14 02:51 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Some routers have built-in support for DDNS, so you don't

Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread David Guntner
Rick Macdonald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [...] I only looked at a couple before deciding to use the free service from ASUS that is included with the router, so I don't know which of the above are actually free. The domain name is not pretty: [yourhostname].asuscomm.com, but that doesn't

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: what you want to do is create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that points to myhostname.someddns.com. Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply refer to

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread David Guntner
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: what you want to do is create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that points to myhostname.someddns.com. Presto! Now when you try to access your home

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place. Er... mydomain.org, being a *.TLD, will most likely be a *paid* domain, hence defeating

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? That's a shame. If you have a

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free

DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Obry
Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure: http://www.noip.com and

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? This news disappointed me too, given

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hugo Vanwoerkom: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? I use http://freedns.afraid.org/ with inadyn. J. -- The news at ten makes me

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Brad Alexander
s On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure:

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep my dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says: Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Penguinpowered

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep my dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says: Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Penguinpowered

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure:

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:32:37PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: I apologize. I should have vetted these before posting them. Best as I can tell, ez-ip, penguinpowered, and hn seem to be gone, dhs, ods, easydns are no longer free, tzo got acquired by dyndns (thus under the 30 days left

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 00:54:10 +0200 Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives?

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes: On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:32:37PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: I apologize. I should have vetted these before posting them. Best as I can tell, ez-ip, penguinpowered, and hn seem to be gone, dhs, ods, easydns are no longer free, tzo got acquired by dyndns