[olug] NetworkSolutions and Dynamic DNS

[Jay Bendon]

i use freedns.afaid.org

Its free and very functional and reliable.

I ended up donating for a premium membership, but don't really need it.

--Jay


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM, David Gilman <davidgilman1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> This isn't the greatest of answers but I moved my personal dynamic DNS over
> to a bind server I run over the weekend.  If you're paying for DNS hosting
> I can see why you wouldn't want to bother with this though.
>
> For reference on how to do this see bind's documentation for the
> 'update-policy' option on a zone.  You can use the nsupdate tool to push
> zone updates securely.
> On Apr 22, 2014 1:02 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> > My domain (Linder.org) is hosted at Network Solutions and I've used the
> > free Dyn.com dynamic DNS to keep my home systems available.  Unfortunatly
> > on May 7th this is going away.
> >
> > Two questions:
> > 1: Does anyone know how to configure NetworkSolutions to accept a dynamic
> > DNS update from my home system?  Is there a script?  I couldn't even find
> > if this was an extra-cost option...
> >
> > 2: If that's not possible, what registrar can people recommend that is
> > cheaper than NetworkSolutions (probably easy), AND support Dynamic DNS
> > updates?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
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