dyndns

[vin2install 0]

Is it still free?

Somehow i cant create a new account with a host name without having to pay.

Wondering if it is just me.

[vin2install 0]

Nevermind they make you sign up with a credit card and cancel to keep the free host.

[musher 0]

Really? I think the credit card thing must be new.

 

I had a grandfathered free account for years (with 4 domains) and went on vacation the week before my "reminder" to verify activity. I got back about 12 hours after the deadline and my account was gone.

 

I was able to set up a new free account with 2 domains and no credit card. This was back in July, I think.

 

I probably ought to just pay them. It's a handy service.

[keat63 0]

I found the same issue, so signed up for free with no-ip.org instead.

[Securame 0]

Yeah, it seems they did change it recently... Now you can not use up to 2 hosts for free, like you used to.

 

You can sign up for a monthly trial (credit card needed), if you wish to cancel before you get billed, you can do so, and you wil get to keep the free host you created. I guess they were tired of too many free users...

[rory 0]

Another way is this:

 

buy a domain name at a registrar

sign up for freedns.afraid.org

add afraid.org's name servers to your domain name at the registrar

wait a day or two

add sub domains - A record - Sub Domain: client1.mydomain.com - ip: their IP.

Run an IP update tool on a PC at their location to update just their record.

[fa chris 0]

Another way is this:

 

buy a domain name at a registrar

sign up for freedns.afraid.org

add afraid.org's name servers to your domain name at the registrar

wait a day or two

add sub domains - A record - Sub Domain: client1.mydomain.com - ip: their IP.

Run an IP update tool on a PC at their location to update just their record.

 

Oh wow, that's an awesome concept. And a new place to park my domains.

[Securame 0]

I didn't know about afraid.org, gonna check it out.

 

Do you know if they are compatible with dyndns.org clients? That would be great, since most routers we touch have dyndns.org client.

[rory 0]

im working on an updater for it, they have updaters from others but I want something different.

im making it so you can just send a command to a server from any browser and it will update the user's ip for that sub domain. so hopefully can even be done on a mobile phone. gonna post more about it on my site when I get something more complete.

[rory 0]

Another way is this:

 

buy a domain name at a registrar

sign up for freedns.afraid.org

add afraid.org's name servers to your domain name at the registrar

wait a day or two

add sub domains - A record - Sub Domain: client1.mydomain.com - ip: their IP.

Run an IP update tool on a PC at their location to update just their record.

 

Oh wow, that's an awesome concept. And a new place to park my domains.

It works well, my domains are using that now and Im hosting my website and email server here on my computer. Its nice having total control over everything unlike with shared hosting on another server.

[vin2install 0]

The only problem is how you are going to implement that into the router ddns updater or the DVR's ddns updater. Maybe an open source router like DD-WRT could be done.

[rory 0]

wont be a router app, as its just hitting a webpage.

but will look into that more.

[Securame 0]

Hikvision DVRs allow me to setup the Dyndns server being used for updates, which is members.dyndns.org. A different server could be used for updates quite easily. But most (if not all) routers do not allow you to change the Dyndns update server

 

With Dyndns, updating your host is just a http request like the following:

 

http://username:password@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=yourhostname&myip=ipaddress&wildcard=NOCHG&mx=NOCHG&backmx=NOCHG

 

If afraid.org can be updated like that, it should be easy to do it from any DVR/router that lets you configure the update server.

[rory 0]

Yes afraid lets you send a update request to a webpage with a hashed key for your sub domain. You can get the actual link for each sub domain from afraid's website once logged in.