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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
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Out of curiosity, why use a forwarder if you run your own DNS? Why not handle resolutions yourself?
I was using it as a free domain for local things. I had a local address stored in duckdns as *.example.duckdns.org -> 192.168.1.x which pointed to an nginx reverse proxy that I then used to point at different services I host locally. It worked with letsencrypt so I could use https. I bought a domain from namecheap yesterday and have since switched to using them, with the benefit of the new domain being much shorter to type lol. I'm still working on getting letsencrypt working so that I dont have to pay for an ssl, but regular http works fine since its all internal to my network.
Oh I completely misunderstood! I thought it was a forwarder, not dynamic DNS. My bad! Makes total sense!
If it looks like DNS, If it quacks like DNS, If it breaks like DNS, it must be a ~~duck~~ DNS.
Yes, it was very unreliable yesterday and so far it seems it will continue today. 😐 Is there any similar, free service out there, that works the same "set it and forget it" way?
deSEC.io is free and has an API. You can update your IP with a curl command. But you must bring your own domain.
They used to offer free subdomains on .dedyn.io but they had to stop because it was getting abused. 🙁
https://www.gnutomorrow.com/best-free-dynamic-dns-services/ Here are a few, DuckDNS is listed here funny enough
Duckdns has been inconsistent for me as well for the past year. Have you considered alternatives?
I’ve had major problems for days like half a year ago. Switched to dynv6.net with no issues so far.
This is the first time I've noticed it not working, if its consistent I'll probably switch but I havent looked for alternatives yet
This will be of zero help to you if your registrar isn't Porkbun, but I've recently stopped using DuckDNS in lieu of this.
It works for me.
There is this site which has detailed status report, but to be honest I don't really know how to interpret all of that haha.
There is currently some error though:
I believe the nameservers are what respond to domain resolution requests. Nameservers not responding could mean they are down. If there's no backup and the domain is resolved using one of those servers, then that might explain it not working.
It seems to be intermittent? I can access it sometimes and other times I cant. When I cant unbound logs this
2024-03-26T11:14:08-04:00 Error unbound [20503:2] error: SERVFAIL <www.duckdns.org. A IN>: all servers for this domain failed, at zone duckdns.org. no server to query nameserver addresses not usable