Last in my small series about running your own Dynamic DNS service: how to support clients which can’t use the nsupdate tool directly.
Last in my small series about running your own Dynamic DNS service: how to support clients which can’t use the nsupdate tool directly.
For a number of reasons it is nice to know your own IP-address. If you are behind a firewall or a NAT system, you usually only have a private IP-address and “someone else” on the internet needs to tell you your official IP-address.
Dyn, the company behind the widely known dynamic DNS service DynDNS, will shut down it’s free service effectively May 7th, 2014. Of course there are plenty of other free or freemium services out there, but history will repeat itself and these services will vanish over time, or change their business modell.
A while ago I spent an afternoon to implement my own dynamic DNS service.