Who's your DNS provider? I use cloudflare and powershell script and hits their API. Works well
I'm using Cloudfare for DNS. I'll check out what they have available.
I've been using this docker container over a year, with no issues. https://hub.docker.com/r/oznu/cloudflare-ddns/
But there's also this script: https://github.com/joshuar/cf-ddns
Seconding this one
Super simple once you look at how the config file is formatted.
Thank you! I'll give that a try.
You should be able to do the crontab approach with any DNS provider that has an API – just need to change the URL and the API key, obviously.
If your provider or registrar doesn't offer an API consider using one that does. DeSEC.io is free to use and reliable.
I've discovered DeSEC recently too and have been positively surprised by it. I use it for DNS but they also have dyndns on a shared domain similar to DuckDNS.
Oh right I had forgotten about that, you can use DeSEC even without a domain, for dynamic DNS.
I solved this using tailscale, no need to make your home server visible to the world, no Forwarding rules on your router. It works like a VPN on your phone/laptop and access directly your target machine in your network running taiscale. There is a completely selfhosted version called Headscale, but you'll need an accessibile server on the internet. A cheap VPS would work for this. You can check also Zerotier, Nebula , Netmaker, pure Wireguard etc etc. Godspeed!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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