Starting now, if you would like to maintain your free Dyn account, you must log into your account once a month. Failure to do so will result in expiration and loss of your hostname. This activity helps us eliminate hostnames that are no longer needed and/or dormant. Note that using an update client will no longer suffice for this monthly login.
I hope you are correct but my limited research shows otherwise. There are no more free hostnames period. If you are grandfathered in then you have to login once a month. Previously, you had to update the hostname atleast once a month for it to stay active with a dyndns client (which was understandable). I also liked TZO for free dns but seems dyn.com already assimilated that company[:@]If you google dynamic dns, you will find a number of options, but a lot of the domain names are garbage. I'm pretty choked that dyn.com is putting the screws to the users in this manner. I can see not taking on new users, but this latest tactic is pretty low. Makes me think if I do end up paying, it will be to anyone but them.
I have never used dyndns in business settings so I am not concerned about that aspect. I have 5 hostnames and a couple of static IPs [:$] Back in the heyday of dotcom, it was much easier to assign an IP to a hostname instead of remembering each IP. But I can foresee problems for many users who use netgear and other routers (astaro) that have dyndns client built in and finding themselves without service since dyn.com is under no obligation to deliver their change of policy email to anyone.
I have not received this email personally but logged in just to make sure and everything works. I did find a copy posted on yahoo groups if anyone is interested. Yahoo! Groups
Regards
Bill
Yes, the UTM supports dyndns and a few other services... it's in webadmin.I realize utm supports dyndns, but is there a way to get utm to update the ip address? The client is responsible to periodically do this.
But, according to this news, you'll still need to login to their website monthly.
Barry
I realize utm supports dyndns, but is there a way to get utm to update the ip address? The client is responsible to periodically do this.
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Starting now, if you would like to maintain your free Dyn account, you must log into your account once a month. Failure to do so will result in expiration and loss of your hostname. Note that using an update client will no longer suffice for this monthly login. You will still continue to get email alerts every 30 days if your email address is current.
Astaro/UTM has, for quite some time (at least since 8.x) had ddclient built-in; it is exposed in WebAdmin under Network Services on one of the Tabs on the right (in v9, don't click on DNS under Network Services).Let me try this again, because for some reason, the point is not getting across. I know utm supports dyndns. My utm is configured to use dyndns. The most recent update was April 27th, which I believe is the date that that I reinstalled utm from scratch after a failed update of a beta. Since then, utm has not updated dyndns. The date of the last update shown on utm is consistent with the date on dyndns. I find this strange, because the client (utm) should update dyndns periodically. For example, the other one of my PCs, which is at my parent's house, updates every time they log on, and the date of the most recent update is shown on dyndns. I see no mechanism in utm to force an update or configure the frequency of update. I am getting concerned that dyndns will drop the host if utm doesn't update it. Is this clear?
There is a dropdown to choose from quite a few providers.
Barry
The most recent update was April 27th, which I believe is the date that that I reinstalled utm from scratch after a failed update of a beta. Since then, utm has not updated dyndns.From the ddclient (dyndns client) configuration file, it checks for the change of IP every 5 minutes (notice the daemon=300) and then stores that IP in its cache
gatekeeper:/ # cat /etc/ddclient/global.conf-defaultIf your IP has changed in the last 5 minutes, it will update the new IP, however if the IP hasn't changed, it will wait 25 days before updating.
daemon=300
ssl=yes
timeout=120
cache=/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache
pid=/opt/tmpfs/ddclient.pid
syslog=yes
