I selfhost some tools and use duckdns for names resolution but it does not seem to be working today. My ISP updated some things on there end last night and I updated my local unbound server so I’m not sure which if either of these is also playing a role but I cant seem to access duckdns. I have tried to connect to it on my phone network outside of my isp’s control and cant which leads me to believe that duckdns is down?
You must log in or # to comment.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web IP Internet Protocol nginx Popular HTTP server
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
[Thread #637 for this sub, first seen 28th Mar 2024, 14:05] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]
Out of curiosity, why use a forwarder if you run your own DNS? Why not handle resolutions yourself?
I was using it as a free domain for local things. I had a local address stored in duckdns as *.example.duckdns.org -> 192.168.1.x which pointed to an nginx reverse proxy that I then used to point at different services I host locally. It worked with letsencrypt so I could use https. I bought a domain from namecheap yesterday and have since switched to using them, with the benefit of the new domain being much shorter to type lol. I’m still working on getting letsencrypt working so that I dont have to pay for an ssl, but regular http works fine since its all internal to my network.
Oh I completely misunderstood! I thought it was a forwarder, not dynamic DNS. My bad! Makes total sense!
Duckdns has been inconsistent for me as well for the past year. Have you considered alternatives?
I’ve had major problems for days like half a year ago. Switched to dynv6.net with no issues so far.