I’ve been using Duck DNS happily for years but it’s been down more than up for the last month for me and I think it’s time to switch.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    namecheap is the registrar I use, and ddclient works with them. Been using it for like 10 years.

    Another thing I do is log the public IP address of my laptop and my home into syncthing every 5 minutes.

    • robear@lemmy.zipOP
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      4 days ago

      Ah my bad. Doesn’t show up when you search DDNS, I guess it wasn’t mentioned in the post at all.

  • Ooops@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    I use no-ip because that was one of the few my router back then many, many, many years ago supported out-of-the-box and there was never a reason to change…

  • f314@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I couldn’t get my head around DDNS when I started out, so I ended up renting a dirt cheap VPS and running a wireguard tunnel from my homeserver. I think I pay ~$3 a month for the VPS, where I also run the reverse proxy for my services (Caddy).

    Cons: I’m not completely self sufficient Pros: My machine is not exposed directly to the net, and it was laughably simple to set up.