I am not understanding the issue you have with DNS?
Just have a script that updates the DNS entry to your current public IP.
If you do not like Cloudflare there are plenty of other services that offer a free API with their DNS service.
you can get free dns services via loads of services. I use freedna.afraid.org.
You just add a script to your server’s cronjobs that pings the server with the given info when you set it up and your server will be accessible via its domain name within 24hrs.
There’s loads of tutorials on dynamic dns (ddns) that you can use
Im not sure I understand your issue, DNS is the magic that allows you to goto home.somedomain.com and get a webpage. But you still need to give DNS the location of the server, much like the contacts in your phone.
DDNS is how you have your home connection attached to a DNS record that is updated when the IP changes, see other comments.
Also once you understand how it all hangs together, you can do some really cool magic to make getting to your services easier
I mean sure, but syncthing is able to communicate back and forth between host/clients. Why couldn’t an HTTP port 80 app be made to do the same. Like a DNS free service sort of thing.
You really want a local DNS forwarder. There’s a ton. Dnsmasq being one of the most widely deployed. Your router probably runs it and has the ability to set static DNS entries from DHCP as well.
@werefreeatlast I do this with yggdrasil. Every yggdrasil host gets its own unique private IPv6 address (routeable only to other yggdrasil hosts). As long as you have a single yggdrasil host that’s located in public (I use a VPS for this), you can reach any of the yggdrasil hosts from any of the other ones via their IPv6 address. I then map those addresses with DNS, so I don’t have to ever type them.
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I am not understanding the issue you have with DNS?
Just have a script that updates the DNS entry to your current public IP. If you do not like Cloudflare there are plenty of other services that offer a free API with their DNS service.
I think you are misunderstanding something here.
you can get free dns services via loads of services. I use freedna.afraid.org.
You just add a script to your server’s cronjobs that pings the server with the given info when you set it up and your server will be accessible via its domain name within 24hrs.
There’s loads of tutorials on dynamic dns (ddns) that you can use
Im not sure I understand your issue, DNS is the magic that allows you to goto home.somedomain.com and get a webpage. But you still need to give DNS the location of the server, much like the contacts in your phone.
DDNS is how you have your home connection attached to a DNS record that is updated when the IP changes, see other comments.
Also once you understand how it all hangs together, you can do some really cool magic to make getting to your services easier
And then the flying donkeys appeared in the sky with golden ribbons on the tails…
Seriously… If it where so easy to do…
Cloudflarw tunnels or tailscale is probably the best approximation
I mean sure, but syncthing is able to communicate back and forth between host/clients. Why couldn’t an HTTP port 80 app be made to do the same. Like a DNS free service sort of thing.
You are roughly describing how Tailscale functions, give it a look
It’s called a hosts file
This is a stupid solution though.
You really want a local DNS forwarder. There’s a ton. Dnsmasq being one of the most widely deployed. Your router probably runs it and has the ability to set static DNS entries from DHCP as well.
@werefreeatlast I do this with yggdrasil. Every yggdrasil host gets its own unique private IPv6 address (routeable only to other yggdrasil hosts). As long as you have a single yggdrasil host that’s located in public (I use a VPS for this), you can reach any of the yggdrasil hosts from any of the other ones via their IPv6 address. I then map those addresses with DNS, so I don’t have to ever type them.