I pay an extra £1 a month to my ISP to get a static address. Figured it's well worth having no hassle.
Aside from a brief scare a couple of months ago, when the owner/operator was unreachable and the configuration interface and some automatic update paths were not working, I have been using afraid.org, and it has proven to be a stellar service, and free for basic needs.
I've been using https://dnsomatic.com/ for a long while now. It updates Cloudflare which manages my DNS. It updates DNS at other providers too which is useful.
My router is able to send DDNS updates to it.
I just have a cron script running on a machine that does something like this every 10 seconds
C_IP=`dig +short my.domain`
IP=`curl https://api.ipify.org`
if(C_IP != IP) {
updateRoute53(IP)
}
This is just for my main home server. Gets the job done because if it's out of date for a few seconds nothing matters.
~~AdGuard! They even have installable profiles for Apple devices, so I get ad blocking even on mobile!~~
mb, DDNS. nvm
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