From: "Massimo S." <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [eCS-ISP] GoDaddy DDNS
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:26:26 +0100
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Il 24/01/2020 20:18, Al Savage ha scritto:
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something in this DDNS discussion . . . it
> all sounds so difficult.  Maybe I've got it easy?  Perhaps I am not
> doing things professionally?
> 
> I have a hobby server, which was OS/2-based from 1997 until last year.
> My (several) domain names are defined by dyn.com (formerly dyndns, now
> Oracle), for about twenty years.  I pay $15/year (I think).  That gets
> me basic DNS<->IP lookup.  I have residential broadband service, whose
> IP changes on a whim: it may remain the same for six months, or change
> three times in a day.
> 
> When I was an OS/2 shop, I ran a java client that monitored changes to
> the WAN IP, and it used the dyndns API to update my IP in their DNS,
> which propagated out to other DNSs.  This worked well for around fifteen
> years.
> 
> Then, I changed to a router that offered to do this service on its own,
> so I disabled the OS/2 java client and used the router to update my IP
> with dyndns' DNS.  Since a year or so ago, that got flaky (probably a
> change in dyndns' API, and my old hardware router had no firmware update
> available), so I now use a Linux client (supplied as a Debian package, I
> believe) on a local Ubuntu server to manage the IP updates to dyndns.
> 
> Is what you're discussing some variation of what I'm doing with $15/year
> dyn.com and a free Debian IP updater client?  Or something else?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Al Savage

in Italy with about 15$ per year you get a static IP

massimo