Advice for an EU (and in any case non-spying) Dynamic DNS provider?
from fabriziob@diggita.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 14:14
https://diggita.com/post/94489

I’m starting to play with an old laptop that I have installed Ubuntu Server on, with Nextcloud and Docker.

Using Docker Compose I installed Nginx and now I would like to try to do the DDNS thing on a domain that I registered with an Italian provider.

I looked at a few DynDns providers and they seem to me to be all American or in any case on American infrastructure (DuckDNS on AWS, etc)

Is there anything you can recommend that is EU-based and who has a good reputation in general?

Free is preferred.

#selfhosted

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Mordikan@kbin.earth on 27 Aug 14:54 next collapse

You might try DNS4EU:
86.54.11.1
86.54.11.201
DoH: https://protective.joindns4.eu/dns-query
DoT: protective.joindns4.eu

Vorpal@programming.dev on 27 Aug 17:22 collapse

That seems to be for dns resolving, not for ddns? Or am I missing something?

fabriziob@diggita.com on 27 Aug 17:54 collapse

I have looked at it already and I didn’t find anything that wasn’t a resolver.

Mordikan@kbin.earth on 27 Aug 18:29 collapse

I'm sorry, its been a long day.

DNS4EU doesn't provide DDNS service, you are correct.
Checkout deSEC, they partner with DNS4EU and the EU as part of the initiative to limit dependency on US based infrastructure.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 27 Aug 15:24 next collapse

Domains registered at OVH include this (and 100mb webspace + one 5gb email address) for free.

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 27 Aug 16:54 collapse

Can recommend OVH, they are great and have DNS API

comrade_twisty@feddit.org on 27 Aug 15:53 next collapse

Look into self hosting pangolin on VPS. I have it hosted at infomaniak.ch - it’s basically a self hosted cloudflare tunnel, so you are not exposing your IP. These days this is absolutely preferred over using dyndns and exposing your IP.

Vorpal@programming.dev on 27 Aug 17:11 next collapse

Afraid.org is better than DuckDNS. (DuckDNS is not reliable and have been slow or down a lot.)

But it is still American.

Vorpal@programming.dev on 27 Aug 17:15 next collapse

Most registrars also run DNS servers as part of the fee you pay for the domain. Usually they have an API. You can just use that to implement Dynamic DNS, there are even often tools for it. Do a search for your DNS registrar and dyndns.

fabriziob@diggita.com on 27 Aug 17:51 collapse

Will call and ask them directly tomorrow.

Thanks for the info.

dihutenosa@piefed.social on 27 Aug 17:31 collapse

Are you sure you need DYNDNS? My 'dynamic' IP address changes so rarely that I just update my DNS entries manually when it does.

Could you elaborate on the "non-spying" bit? There's not much they can infer from people looking up your IP. Unless you run their daemon that updates the IP, as opposed to curl in cron.