[clug] Running my own dynamic DNS? (linux Digest, Vol 134, Issue 18, Message 1)

[Miles Goodhew]

Paul,

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:39:21 +1100
> From: Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net>
> Message-ID: <530C80E9.7020608 at mabula.net>
>
...

> Does anyone know if it's possible, and sane, to run some kind of dynamic
> DNS
> system?  Are there standard packages out there that take a regular login
> from ones home router and update a DNS A record based on the router's
> public
> address?  Or is it just considered too insecure?
>

I use a sort-of hybrid solution: My DNS registrar (Hover.com, FWIW, but
most should allow it) lets me register a CNAME record pointing to an
otherwise "throw away" dynamic dns name, which my home server keeps
up-to-date.
Even if the somewhat janky free dynamic DNS name goes away or changes
(which has happened at least once in the past, IIRC), the CNAME address
remains constant (albeit disconnected for short periods when the dynamic
DNS does something annoying to try to value-add)

I've been working-up the motivation to actually do-away with the free
dynamic DNS service and use my cheapie static virtual host to do the
dynamic DNS. Still firmly in the "can't be bothered" territory, though.

M0les.

-- 
Miles Goodhew,
Executive Computer Scientist