FreeDNS

[proxx]

You gotta be thinking , another Dynamic DNS host.
Many of these parties I dont really trust, this seems like a great inititave.
No external funky installers


http://freedns.afraid.org/

Possible Uses:

    Host your own site on your own connection from home/work/school/etc
    Access your computer with a name (like zeus.afraid.org or yourdomain.com) instead of a numeric IP address
    Run your own http server, ftp server, or anything you want to install on your computer/server
    Fetchable URL to update your IP instantly on our network if you have a dynamic address
    Hosts even work for your LAN. If you have a LAN connected to the internet you can point hosts to private IP addresses (even private IPv6 addresses) and they will work within your network
    Let your friends point theirname.yourdomain.com to their own connection
    Use web forwarding to transparently redirect a hostname to another URL. Let our servers handle the redirection
    afraid.org has been un-interrupted for hundreds of days at a time
    afraid.org is operated from multiple redundant high capacity well connected servers

Feature List:

    Free DNS, Dynamic DNS, Static DNS services
    Free subdomain hosting, free domain hosting, free backup dns, reverse IPv6 DNS hosting (forward/reverse)
    Free URL redirection [web forwarding]
    Paid services available for increased account capacity
    Unlimited number of domains per account (yes really)
    5 free shared hostnames, use anywhere
    20 free subdomains per domain, use on your own domains only
    INSTANTLY point yourname.afraid.org or yourname.com to any IP or URL
    Supports every TLD on the Internet
    Currently 99,278 other domains besides afraid.org in our shared domain pool
    Funding is supplied by the members who go premium. Funding goes directly to servers and high bandwidth connections they reside on
    Robust support for CNAME, A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, LOC, RP, HINFO, SRV records
    Are you a web developer? You can use nameserver branding to name our nameservers as your own! Let us worry about tFreeDNS.afraid.org is operated in the United States of America and operated to be in compliance with the laws of the United States. Access is governed by these terms and conditions under the laws of the State of California and the United States. Registration as a user of or subscriber to any of the services provided on them results in your customer information being stored and processed in the United States, and you, in registering or subscribing, specifically consent that storage and processing. You may access that information at any time to confirm its correctness and to keep it current in connection with your registration or subscription. If you are subscribing or registering for use of this site from outside of the United States of America, you consent to the storage and processing in the United States of the personal data you submit.he maintenance/redundancy
    Round robin DNS supported (Multiple IP addresses for 1 hostname)
    IPv6 forward AND reverse (both .int and .arpa) supported
    Dynamic DNS supported, several clients for Win32 and UNIX available
    Forward your hosts to any existing URL on the internet (even to a different port if your ISP blocks 80) with the Web Forward system
    URL cloaking redirection supported, optionally hide real URL of your site in the address bar
    Allows you to change web hosting providers without messy DNS propagation delays
    Simple, fast, flexible and reliable interface, feedback is welcome
    Works with any existing web host you may already be using for both DNS and hosting
    If your web host goes down, visitors will see a "timeout" error instead of a "site does not exist" error, e-mail will also remain queued for 5 days
    If you put a domain in afraid.org, you can edit TTL, Minimum, Allow/Deny AXFR's, and approve/disapprove others from using hosts on your domain. You can also share your domain with the users of afraid.org, or your own web site visitors using our 'webclude' feature
    Support for vanity dns hosts (example: i.knew.you.were.afraid.org) currently 99,278 domains in the shared pool
    Fast and easy setup process. Setup an account in less than 5 minutes
    Extremely reliable, fast, and redundant hosting, and interface
    All updates go live instantaneously.

FreeDNS.afraid.org is operated in the United States of America and operated to be in compliance with the laws of the United States. Access is governed by these terms and conditions under the laws of the State of California and the United States. Registration as a user of or subscriber to any of the services provided on them results in your customer information being stored and processed in the United States, and you, in registering or subscribing, specifically consent that storage and processing. You may access that information at any time to confirm its correctness and to keep it current in connection with your registration or subscription. If you are subscribing or registering for use of this site from outside of the United States of America, you consent to the storage and processing in the United States of the personal data you submit.

Thats the only real downside to it.

[flowjob]

I use FreeDNS for my Raspberry Pi too, and I really like it. One can provide his domain for DDNS on afraid.org, and then you basically can create a subdomain for DDNS, so there are A LOT of domains to choose from. And they provide way more options for assigning your device to a domain than a lot of others do...

Only thing: I use ddclient as my DDNS client, and the version that is in most of the distros repos doesn't support FreeDNS, so I had to compile it myself. That shouldn't be a problem though, and I think there are other clients that support FreeDNS too..

[proxx]

I use FreeDNS for my Raspberry Pi too, and I really like it. One can provide his domain for DDNS on afraid.org, and then you basically can create a subdomain for DDNS, so there are A LOT of domains to choose from. And they provide way more options for assigning your device to a domain than a lot of others do...

Only thing: I use ddclient as my DDNS client, and the version that is in most of the distros repos doesn't support FreeDNS, so I had to compile it myself. That shouldn't be a problem though, and I think there are other clients that support FreeDNS too..

You can run a simple bash script with a cron job, or do we consider that old-fashioned

[flowjob]

You can run a simple bash script with a cron job, or do we consider that old-fashioned

Oh thanks, didn't know that you can do that. Checked their page again and found the script. Going to use that from now on...

[ThePH30N1X]

I always use this service. It's very good indeed.