I got a homelab, at the moment I am only running some local stuff and tailscale to reach my stuff remotely.
I can use tailscales ddns, but I would like a real domain. Is there a domain registrator that works with dynamic ips? Or do I need to use a CNAME instead of A record?
If you don’t mind that it’s Google, then Google Domains has exactly what you’re looking for.
Well shit, I guess I gotta start looking for a replacement. It’s one of the few Google services I still use.
Thanks for the heads up, must has missed that news.
Heh, no problem!
As for where to go, people seem to really like Gandi, also keep hearing good things about Porkbun, I myself am very happy with INWX. Take that for what you will :p
Do you want the host to be accessible fully from any host, or do you control all hosts you want to access it?
For mine, all the devices I want to access my personal host I have setup zerotier, and then pointed cloudflare at my zerotier address.
Any device I want to access my host (outside of my local network) requires zerotier.
I don’t want anything outside of my control accessing my host
CloudFlare ZT tunnels coupled with an Azure AD. Work’s amazingly with their containers to keep the tunnel alive.
All domains works with Dynamic IPs - it all depends on what DNS-provider you use :) Provider like Cloudflare ( I do not recommend Cloudflare) and afraid.org both offer dynamic DNS.
It is a giant MITM proxy, and whoever who has access to their logs have the potential to gain a lot of control
Don’t have to use their proxy. My gateway router uses cloudflare to set the IP via the API and I just use self-signed certificates. A record resolves to my gateway, not some cloudflare server.
They also do a lot of work in the privacy space. Encrypted Client Hello to protect SNI came from them.
If you use any company for TLS termination they can MITM (e.g. AWS certificate manager).
Yea, that’s right. What I was looking for was like one stop shop. Where I can pay for my domain and dns needs. My current domain registrator does not have dynamic dns, so I have to use a CNAME from another place with a ddns.
It really depends on the company that you use to manage the domain’s DNS. As long as they have an API to update DNS records…
For example, I can have my domain at Porkbun and have its DNS managed at Cloudflare. Cloudflare allows updating DNS records via API…so there’s programs to update it. Some routers even support it.
Worst case, you can set up a service like duckdns and have your domain, via cname, point to the duck DNS subdomain.
There’s options.
I think using the cloudflare API is the way to go. You could probably set up an internal service that translates your home router’s dyndns request to a cloudflare API call.
Only if you had root access to your router. It’s a lot easier to write or find a very simple update script and schedule it to run every now and then via crontab.
