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Anyone with problems with duckdns DynDNS?

I feel that sometimes resolution of sub-domain.duckdns.org and host.sub-domain.duckdns.org fails with empty result or even timeout result. Tested resolution against Google and Cloudfare DNS servers.

Do you have a similar behaviour?

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buy a cheap domain and use afraid services, https://freedns.afraid.org/, or ydns, https://ydns.io/, with free license is a good and cheap solution.

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- Question - if your domain registrar has an API to update your A/AAAA records, and your router (or other home server) lets you easily update those records via the API when your public IP changes, is there a benefit to using freedns or any other DDNS service? It seems like you don't really need them if you own a domain.
  
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I switched to cloud flare because of the downtime duckdns has. Sometimes it can get really bad.

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- Same. Been rock solid.
  
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Yes, it's why I stopped using DuckDNS and decided to buy my own domain. I used Porkbun and got a cheap one (~$15/year?). It was super easy, and DNS results are lightning fast now; no timeouts/errors/etc. like when I was using DuckDNS.

My router supports Porkbun for DDNS; it handles updating the A/AAAA records for my domain when my IP changes, but if your router doesn't have that option, I'm sure there's a script you could run on a PC or Raspberry Pi, etc. to handle that for you.

I honestly don't know why I didn't do this sooner! I've changed DDNS providers a few times over the years and it's always a pain to update everything that references the old names. It's great having peace of mind knowing that I own the domain now and won't have to change again (even if I wanted to leave Porkbun, I could just transfer the domain registration to any number of good alternatives and not have to change my domain name).

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DuckDNS pretty often has problems and fails to propagate properly. It's not very good, especially with frequent IP changes.

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- What's a better option these days? I'd be interested in trying to get rid of duckdns
  
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  Buying a domain. There might be some free services that, similar to DuckDNS in the beginning, work reliably for now. But IMHO they are not worth the potential headaches.
  
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- In my case, there is no IP change. However, the TTL of entries seems to be 60 seconds and when Cloudfare/Google asks for the new A record, it sometimes fails. I am getting this error message from Cloudfare when I try to solve host.sub-domain.duckdns.org
  
  EDE: 22 (No Reachable Authority): (time limit exceeded)
  
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System

IP Internet Protocol

VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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No-ip.

I've been using them for about 15 years now. Started when I self hosted at home with the free service and even though I moved to a VPS I still use them ($32 USD / year, dedicated TLD, dedicated IP). I can add redirects, temp static landing page, etc etc.

I've had a SINGLE outage of their service in that time.

They also have free services as well, dynIP clients for Win & Lin, and their shit works. Most DD-WRT / OpenWRT images also support it.

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I used to rely heavily on duckdns and it was great for a time, but moved off them a couple of years ago because resolution became inconsistent. I've since rolled my own ddns using a script that utilizes Porkbun.com's DNS record API.

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I've heard many people complain about DuckDNS. Personally use desec.io for DDNS and it's been solid.

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Thanks for all your answers! I will check some of the alternatives to duckdns.

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Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
IP	Internet Protocol
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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