From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 24 08:15:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63163106566C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:15:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@yazzy.org) Received: from mail.yazzy.org (mail.yazzy.org [85.196.65.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CBC8FC1D for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.yazzy.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01A1122997 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:14:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.8.0.7] (unknown [10.8.0.7]) by mail.yazzy.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEF67224A4 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:14:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B84E0B0.8070904@yazzy.org> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:17:52 +0100 From: "Marcin M. Jessa" Organization: eIT.no User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 'FreeBSD-ISP' References: <4B82F976.8020308@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <4B82F976.8020308@yazzy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Wed Feb 24 09:14:57 2010 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.6178 X-DSPAM-Improbability: 1 in 163 chance of being spam X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 1970,4b84e0012209777454231 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, Jessa, 0.00469, On, 0.00933, References*yazzy.org>, 0.00933, Hi+#+>, 0.01000, Received*(Postfix)+#+ESMTPS, 0.01000, record, 0.99000, A+#+#+the, 0.99000, A+#+#+the, 0.99000, Marcin+M+#+wrote, 0.01000, Jessa+wrote+>, 0.01000, and+#+#+a, 0.01000, M+Jessa, 0.01000, be+able, 0.01000, fine, 0.01000, fine, 0.01000, Date*2010+#+#+52+0100, 0.99000, Marcin+M+Jessa, 0.01000, Marcin+M+Jessa+wrote, 0.01000, >+Hi+#+#+>, 0.01000, update, 0.01000, update, 0.01000, >+I, 0.01000, >+I, 0.01000, Date*09+#+52+0100, 0.99000, >+Hi, 0.01000, In-Reply-To*yazzy.org>, 0.01000, Marcin+M+Jessa+wrote+>, 0.01000 Subject: Re: Registrars with free DynDNS services of my own domains. X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@yazzy.org List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:15:06 -0000 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.