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I was a Dyn customer since the late 90s (I think...). In the early(ish) days they offered a lifetime DNS service for something like $30, so I jumped on the opportunity. I don't think there was much else around at the time...

All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I?

Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

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Lots of people use our DNS and update via the API to make dynamic DNS. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002052451...

I wonder if you would want to add a link to that page about setting up Cloudflare dynamic DNS on a Synology NAS? That's my use case, and I found a script[1] and a page[2] where people were having some success using it.

[1] https://github.com/joshuaavalon/SynologyCloudflareDDNS [2] https://luvis.se/tipstricks/set-up-dynamic-dns-with-cloudfla...

Me too :) https://github.com/kissgyorgy/cloudflare-dyndns

I recently moved a MUD I host from cloud services to a little System76 box in my laundry room. I use dnsimple.com for my domains and they have an API, so I just added a little task to my MUD server to periodically check my ip address via https://api.ipify.org/ and then check what I have for my A record in dnsimple's API, if it differs I update it.

In addition to what @jgrahamc said, another good option for some services is to use a Cloudflare Argo Tunnel. Spin it up on your local machine, and web traffic will be routed to it without having to open your firewall, DMZ, etc. It also has a free tier now: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-free-argo-tunnel-for-your-next...

I found duckdns a while ago, I use it to tinker with ephemeral / non-production stuff.

At the time it was specifically "dyndns.org", because there was a separate "dyndns.com" company that they eventually bought out, IIRC.

> All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it.

Was a good run for sure.

> Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

Personally I just use Amazon's Route 53 and a ~150 line shell script wrapping awscli[1] to update the records. It's not ddclient but it gets the job done. Cost averages about $1.51/mo. for the DNS service and annual domain renewal—that's for a $12/yr. .info domain; other TLDs will vary. The DNS service pricing depends on the traffic, but at only $0.01 per 25,000 queries it's probably not a significant factor for most of the sites that would benefit from dynamic DNS.

[1] http://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-us...

If you paid the $30, you might be considered to be on the Pro plan. I (like others in this thread) received an email stating that Pro service will continue uninterrupted, and no action is required on my part.

I like and use nsupdate.info for years. Also: It's free software.

I'm surprised people haven't mentioned

https://https://www.duckdns.org/

I've used dns.he.net recently. Seems to work, and you can't argue with the price.

I'm currently using dynv6. Despite the name they also support A records. :-)

Nothing overly fancy, useable via simple curl calls. I'm just using it to reach my home server, so if you want more advanced features ymmv.

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