I feel that sometimes resolution of sub-domain.duckdns.org and host.sub-domain.duckdns.org fails with empty result or even timeout result. Tested resolution against Google and Cloudfare DNS servers.

Do you have a similar behaviour?

  • @[email protected]
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    216 days ago

    DuckDNS pretty often has problems and fails to propagate properly. It’s not very good, especially with frequent IP changes.

    • @SidewaysHighways
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      116 days ago

      What’s a better option these days? I’d be interested in trying to get rid of duckdns

      • @[email protected]
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        316 days ago

        Buying a domain. There might be some free services that, similar to DuckDNS in the beginning, work reliably for now. But IMHO they are not worth the potential headaches.

        • @zakoOP
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          216 days ago

          I have a domain… but I think DynDNS is not always available for every domain or by every domain seller?

          • 2xsaiko
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            516 days ago

            Registrars (or DNS providers if you don’t use the one that comes with your registrar) worth using have an API to manage DNS entries. That’s basically all there is to DynDNS.

            • TVA
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              216 days ago

              Thats how I’ve done mine.

              pfSense has an updater built in so that’s handled my home.mydomain.com entry for me for a long time and has handled updating duckdns too, even though it’s basically only a backup at this point.

              If you’ve got a domain, no real reason to not just handle it yourself and avoid the headaches.

    • @zakoOP
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      116 days ago

      In my case, there is no IP change. However, the TTL of entries seems to be 60 seconds and when Cloudfare/Google asks for the new A record, it sometimes fails. I am getting this error message from Cloudfare when I try to solve host.sub-domain.duckdns.org

      EDE: 22 (No Reachable Authority): (time limit exceeded)