Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:17:52 +0100 From: "Marcin M. Jessa" <lists@yazzy.org> To: 'FreeBSD-ISP' <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Registrars with free DynDNS services of my own domains. Message-ID: <4B84E0B0.8070904@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <4B82F976.8020308@yazzy.org> References: <4B82F976.8020308@yazzy.org>
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On 02/22/2010 10:39 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: > Hi guys. > > Many registrars offer free DNS hosting if you register your domain > with them. > I need a bit more. I need a registrar which not only will "host" my > own domains but also in exchange give me > a dyndns service so I can automatically update the @ records of my > domains as an extra free of charge service. > Do you guys know of any registrars that can do that? > I actually figured out I can run my own services for all my domains on a dynamic IP without breaking any DNS related RFC. I have 2 DNS servers, a master with static IP and a slave with dynamic IP (both can actually have a dynamic IP). The resgistrar (godaddy) does not require IPs when defining custom DNS servers so one of the DNS servers can run just fine on a dynamic IP as long as it's host has defined an A record and not a CNAME. And as long as the Arecord for my domains is not set it should be fine. But not having A records for the domains will of course mean that I won't be able to access http://domain.tld , just http://www.domain.tld But there is a solution to it too. Having access to the master DNS I just can easly update all the A records with a script. I use PowerDNS to host my domains and it's just a metter of running one SQL query to have everything updated and working just fine. All I have to do is to check if IP of my dyndns host has changed and run the SQL query to update all the A records on the master server to match that new IP. Thanks.
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