[TriLUG] Free DNS hosting revisited:

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Tue Aug 24 16:23:55 EDT 2010


I quit using dyndns when I found http://freedns.afraid.org   :)

On 8/23/10 1:27 PM, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
>    
>> I used to have a dynamic IP from TWC, which changed a couple of times.  I
>> did not try using their software for updates and instead tried to use my
>> Netgear router for this function which supposedly supported them.  It
>> never worked and a change of IP caused a loss of connectivity until I
>> manually restored it.
>>
>> Overall, I too am happy with DynDNS and my 'free' domain with them has
>> never caused me any trouble, or failed to resolve as long as it pointed to
>> the correct location.
>>      
> I've been using dyndns to manage the DNS entry for my TWC-assigned IP on
> my home router for>  5 years now.  Tomato firmware running on my WRT54G
> updates dyndns every 2 days and any time it reboots.  I've not had to
> worry about my dyndns record for quite some time.
>
> --[Lance]
>
>    




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