Which Dynamic DNS routing service using my own Domain name?

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Which Managed DNS service using my own Domain name?

I host a few "listen" servers for friends when playing various games.

Giving them my IP is a pain in the butt at times, what I want to do is for them to use for example my own domain name to make things easier, for example, host.gimpymoo.com and for that to route to my dynamic IP address.

At the moment, I have created an A record on my domains DNS which does work, the obvious problem though is that if my IP changes and I update the A record, it is going to take time for the DNS servers to populate.

Am I right in thinking an A record can only be an IP address and not a URL? If not, then surely I could get a free no-ip/DynDNS address and create an A record for that although I dont think that works.

What would be the best/cheapest service to use?

Thanks.
 
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I used to use no-ip.com, but haven't for a couple of years. I just let them handle most of it, just a static ip on my network and the no-ip deamon to update everything...
 
For this sort of stuff you really need to be using an ISP that offer a static IP. Then it will never change, which will be fine for your created A records.

Also your router may have a built in function to allow this and will update instantly on IP change. dyndns.org should do it. Check your router.
 
I assume you are using their given domain name or do you have a plus account for no-ip?

Anyone used the premium service of either no-ip or Dyndns, seems to be about $25 - $30 a year.
 
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Gimpymoo said:
I assume you are using their given domain name or do you have a plus account for no-ip?

Anyone used the premium service of either no-ip or Dyndns, seems to be about $25 - $30 a year.
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Don't need to buy a premium account to do what your wanting to do. You signup and then apply a domain you want. Go check dyndns out and no-ip to see what you can do.

Also phone up your ISP and ask about purchasing a static IP.
 
Sorry, yes I use the domain they gave me

Only I use it and it's easy to remember. Imo, no point paying for a domain name for something non-profitable like this :)

If my IP changes, the router updates the site for me
 
Buying a domain name to use with a dynamic IP address is a bad idea.

To make this work with the domain name you have you have two options:

1. Transfer that domain name to no-ip and then manage it from there.
2. Get a static ip either from your existing ISP (some are free, some charge) or move ISP to one that offers a static IP
 
Have you got an external webserver at all?
It's entirely possible to implement your own No-IP type script on that with a little knowledge. Something like this (I keep meaning to do this....), which assumes you've got standard LAMP services running at both ends:
1. Write a small script that determines your current IP and enters this into a remote MySQL database. You can then schedule this to run daily with cron or simply hit it when you want to update the IP held by the remote server. Similarly you could probably do it as a logon script or somewhere in Group Policy on Windows, although I don't know enough on that one.
2. Serverside, write a small dynamic redirect page that pulls the IP out of the database and redirects :)

Litterally about 20 lines of script at the simplest, although the security on that would be pretty weak.

Not difficult really if you have standard tools at both ends.

-Leezer-
 
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