Mailing List ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #40

From:	"Al Savage" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [eCS-ISP] GoDaddy DDNS
Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:45:05 -0800
To:	eCS ISP Mailing List <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>

On 1/24/20 2:32 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

Hi, guys...

On 01/24/20 02:39 pm, Andy Willis wrote:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 1:19 PM Al Savage <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com <mailto:ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com>> wrote:

    Is what you're discussing some variation of what I'm doing with $15/year
    dyn.com <http://dyn.com> and a free Debian IP updater client? Or
    something else?

Sounds like the same thing. I've not needed it before but knew Lewis now is a reseller for godaddy and if I am going to buy a service, I figured to check that route first. I want my router to do it as it will handle it at each IP change.

Al: Yes, exactly.

Like Max, I also used your link to SSL Labs, and found I was overdue to remove TLSv1.0 & 1.1: done. Since I use LE, that required commenting/pasting in two files instead of one. TG for the internet, I didn't have to search long to find that fix.

Also my memory of what I've been paying dyn for DDNS was off by nine years: I last paid $15/yr. in 2011; today, it's almost $50/yr.

Invoice Date Description Amount 717985 June 14, 2008 9:40:48 AM Account Upgrade (1 Year) $11.50870428 March 16, 2009 8:38:07 PM Account Upgrade Renewal (1 Year) $11.501127610 March 17, 2010 8:18:21 AM Dynamic DNS Pro Renewal (1 Year) $15.001499587 March 14, 2011 11:43:18 AM Dynamic DNS Pro Renewal (1 year) $15.002443413 May 07, 2012 11:04:57 AM Dynamic DNS Pro Renewal (1 year) $40.004330372 December 26, 2013 4:13:11 AM Dynamic DNS Pro Renewal (2 years) $40.007633107 June 10, 2016 8:27:58 PM Dynamic DNS Pro Renewal (2 years) $72.009450472 June 10, 2018 8:09:13 PM Dynamic DNS Pro Renewal (2 years) $99.00

The problem with GoDaddy, then, is that nobody, but nobody has a packaged updater script either *in* a broadband router device or as part of a configurable updater for Java or whatever (think INADYN).

Do you mean: no updater script *for GoDaddy's DDNS*?

I recently flashed my router to dd-wrt, and while its DDNS wiki entry doesn't list GoDaddy explicitly, it does offer a "Custom" selection that looks reasonably flexible.

https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Dynamic_DNS

I suppose I should use dd-wrt's facility to perform the IP updates to dyn, but what's configured now works, and I'll likely leave it alone until it doesn't.

dd-wrt is wildly better than the OEM's firmware, in my case. After configuration, I promptly hit up eBay and procured a backup router, and when it arrived I cloned the first router's config to it, so I can swap out the whole shebang if my primary router ever becomes dodgy.

For a home/hobby setup, this is plenty.

GoDaddy, however, does provide an API for making changes . . .

If GoDaddy can accept IP updates via a URL, it appears that ww-drt can facilitate . . . but I'm not claiming I've actually thoroughly read the dd-wrt docs or anything. I don't live this technology, like you guys do.

Also, Dyn's standard DNS service doesn't even support CAA records, and these are now (since 2017 or so) considered *required* for any domain to pass muster. GoDaddy actually *does* support CAA records and it's entirely free if your domain is registered either through GoDaddy

I have "Pro" (I think I had too many domains to use Std. anymore), but I just spent a fruitless ten minutes trying to determine the differences between Std. & Pro, and from what I can see, there is no Std. pkg. these days: it's all Pro, and at the rate I'm currently paying.

SSL Labs confirms no CAA for my domains. Well, I guess my sites don't pass muster in 2019, but I can't say I'm terribly stressed about it. These days, I barely pay any attention to them, unless someone emails with a complaint, which is darned rare. If a CA issues my cert to someone else, I guess I'll deal with the situation then.

Full disclaimer: GoDaddy's DNS *has* had issues in the past and is nowhere near the robust implementation of Dyn. That said, again, it's free, and sometimes, free is pretty good.

Yeah, at $50/year, maybe I'd be tempted to spend a couple of hours moving to a robust, free solution, but I won't, because it's not broken enough to motivate me these days.

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Regards,
Al Savage

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