[svlug] What's the best dynamic DNS provider?

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 06:07:48 -0800, Rick Moen said:
> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):
> 
> > I'm going to start using Dynamic DNS. My understanding is I'll have
> > the dynamic dns client running on my OpenBSD/pf firewall/router.
> > I'd like to access this thing all over the world.
> > 
> > So what are your favorite dynamic DNS providers?
> 
> Just a really brief plug for the other alternative:  Drop a couple of
> simoleons on a static IP address, at which point all the stuff you
> need to do elaborate Dynamic DNS stuff to maybe, possibly, on a good
> day make reliable will Just Work, without effort.  Old school.

Thanks Rick,

I'd been under the impression that a static IP was $20/month extra, and
I didn't want to do that. After reading your email, I called them and
found it's only $10/month extra, and they'll need to change out my
modem, which gives me a queazy feeling because this one works.

Last night at 3pm I signed up with Afraid.Org for a free account. I
liked the fact that two of their "clients" were just shellscripts I can
understand and would work wonderfully as cron jobs on my OpenBSD/pf
firewall/router. I'm going to try that and see how it works, but if I
have troubles, I'll probably do just what you said and spend the ten
bucks a month more.

Thanks

SteveT

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