I’ve been using desec.io since it’s european, non profit and privacy oriented. Bring your own domain though. Works well, although my caddy plugin has problems getting certs sometimes. My pangolin instance never has any issues getting certs so might be caddy desec plugin specific.

Anything that supports bind’s built-in nsupdate.

I have dyndns. I don’t recommend them, unless a coworker just gave you their lifetime pro account for free.

Thanks Roody, wherever you are!

I already used desec.io for my domains back when I had static IP blocks at home so I just used the dyndns api with ddclient to update them automatically for my dynamic IP.

I put the curl command to update my duckdns IP in cron about 13 years ago, and have never needed to touch it once.

It’s just worked for me

For dynamic updating of dns, don’t use ddclient or cron scripts on the server. Instead use inadyn.

Ddclient is more or less just dead/maintenance mode.

also using cron scripts kinda sucks and is ugly.

just use inadyn and spare yourself headache.

You’d basically just add something like this to the inadyn.conf file

provider duckdns.org {
    username         = YOUR_TOKEN
    password         = noPasswordForDuckdns
    hostname         = YOUR_DOMAIN.duckdns.org
}

You could be behind CGNAT - I’m not sure the best way to tell but it could be the reason.

I would also highly recommend buying a cheap domain to use - it would be the price of a coffee per year but makes life so much easier and you don’t have to depend on duckdns. You can buy through cloudflare, porkbun or many other options which you can search for a good DDNS service to update them.

I had used duckdns for a while back in the day. Always worked great.

These days I have a domain at namecheap which provides a DynDNS feature as well so I’m using that.

I used to just use a script with cron to update Cloudflare DNS records but these days I don’t screw around with exposing anything to the public internet directly, I just use Tailscale.

I got my domain through namecheap. So, I just use them, they have a dynamicdns implementation. I setup a namecheapddns docker container that auto updates mine.

I used duckdns for years without any issues at all. Only reason I switched is because I’m using Pangolin and tunneling instead of exposing my IP directly.

I have been using duckdns for a few years without issues. It should be simple enough , just set up a cron job with your details as listed on their site where you configure it. This keeps your dns entry up to date.

NoIP works great for me so far!

I use ddclient on my vps

DuckDNS had been unreliable when I used it, but it’s been a while. I swapped over to desec.io but their signups aren’t always open. Can highly recommend them though, and they offer many paths to update the IP, including DynDNS(2) protocol or just ddclient.

Also works with certbot for Let’s encrypt certificates using dns challenge.