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"Al Savage" <ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com> |
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Re: [eCS-ISP] GoDaddy DDNS |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:45:05 -0800 |
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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) $11.50
870428 March 16, 2009 8:38:07 PM Account Upgrade
Renewal (1 Year) $11.50
1127610 March 17, 2010 8:18:21 AM Dynamic DNS Pro
Renewal (1 Year) $15.00
1499587 March 14, 2011 11:43:18 AM Dynamic DNS Pro
Renewal (1 year) $15.00
2443413 May 07, 2012 11:04:57 AM Dynamic DNS Pro
Renewal (1 year) $40.00
4330372 December 26, 2013 4:13:11 AM Dynamic DNS Pro
Renewal (2 years) $40.00
7633107 June 10, 2016 8:27:58 PM Dynamic DNS Pro
Renewal (2 years) $72.00
9450472 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.
--
Regards,
Al Savage
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