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?
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.
If it looks like DNS,
If it quacks like DNS,
If it breaks like DNS, it must be a duck DNS.
It seems to be intermittent? I can access it sometimes and other times I cant. When I cant unbound logs this
2024-03-26T11:14:08-04:00 Error unbound
Yes, it was very unreliable yesterday and so far it seems it will continue today. 😐 Is there any similar, free service out there, that works the same “set it and forget it” way?
https://www.gnutomorrow.com/best-free-dynamic-dns-services/ Here are a few, DuckDNS is listed here funny enough
Duckdns has been inconsistent for me as well for the past year. Have you considered alternatives?
This is the first time I’ve noticed it not working, if its consistent I’ll probably switch but I havent looked for alternatives yet
