I feel that sometimes resolution of sub-domain.duckdns.org and host.sub-domain.duckdns.org fails with empty result or even timeout result. Tested resolution against Google and Cloudfare DNS servers.

Do you have a similar behaviour?

    • cheesemoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Question - if your domain registrar has an API to update your A/AAAA records, and your router (or other home server) lets you easily update those records via the API when your public IP changes, is there a benefit to using freedns or any other DDNS service? It seems like you don’t really need them if you own a domain.

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    1·
    2 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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  • Emotet@slrpnk.netEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    DuckDNS pretty often has problems and fails to propagate properly. It’s not very good, especially with frequent IP changes.

    • zako@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      In my case, there is no IP change. However, the TTL of entries seems to be 60 seconds and when Cloudfare/Google asks for the new A record, it sometimes fails. I am getting this error message from Cloudfare when I try to solve host.sub-domain.duckdns.org

      EDE: 22 (No Reachable Authority): (time limit exceeded)

      • Emotet@slrpnk.netEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        Buying a domain. There might be some free services that, similar to DuckDNS in the beginning, work reliably for now. But IMHO they are not worth the potential headaches.

        • zako@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I have a domain… but I think DynDNS is not always available for every domain or by every domain seller?

          • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            Registrars (or DNS providers if you don’t use the one that comes with your registrar) worth using have an API to manage DNS entries. That’s basically all there is to DynDNS.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I switched to cloud flare because of the downtime duckdns has. Sometimes it can get really bad.

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Same here. I love DuckDNS but after the third DNS outage taking down all my services I migrated to Cloudflare and haven’t had a single problem since.