[olug] NetworkSolutions and Dynamic DNS

[Jay Bendon]

I should add, it freedns.afraid.org does support dynamic dns.  You can
easily script it if you want to roll your own "phone home" script.

--Jay


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i use freedns.afaid.org
>
> Its free and very functional and reliable.
>
> I ended up donating for a premium membership, but don't really need it.
>
> --Jay
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM, David Gilman <davidgilman1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This isn't the greatest of answers but I moved my personal dynamic DNS
>> over
>> to a bind server I run over the weekend.  If you're paying for DNS hosting
>> I can see why you wouldn't want to bother with this though.
>>
>> For reference on how to do this see bind's documentation for the
>> 'update-policy' option on a zone.  You can use the nsupdate tool to push
>> zone updates securely.
>> On Apr 22, 2014 1:02 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>>
>> > My domain (Linder.org) is hosted at Network Solutions and I've used the
>> > free Dyn.com dynamic DNS to keep my home systems available.
>>  Unfortunatly
>> > on May 7th this is going away.
>> >
>> > Two questions:
>> > 1: Does anyone know how to configure NetworkSolutions to accept a
>> dynamic
>> > DNS update from my home system?  Is there a script?  I couldn't even
>> find
>> > if this was an extra-cost option...
>> >
>> > 2: If that's not possible, what registrar can people recommend that is
>> > cheaper than NetworkSolutions (probably easy), AND support Dynamic DNS
>> > updates?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dan
>> >
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