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    From Dumas Walker@77:1/115 to NETSURGE on Sat Dec 19 10:07:00 2020
    Ahh, the days of dialing over and over, just waiting for the line to be free so I could connect to The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe. lol.

    I miss those days. :'(


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  • From Warpslide@77:1/156 to All on Mon Jan 4 14:10:47 2021
    On 21 Dec 2020, g00r00 said the following...

    Maybe g00r00 could add something similar to Mystic, something that is framework that could interface directly with bind.

    I don't have a server to setup a dynamic DNS for mysticbbs.com or
    anything likethat, but there are plenty of free services that do this
    (or at least therewere, not sure how many are still left).

    I use 1984hosting.com for free full DNS. They offer dynamic DNS with your own domain name & also DNSSEC.

    For example nrbbs.net is tied to them and bbs.nrbbs.net's IPv4 address is updated by a cron job that runs every 10 minutes. (Not that my IP has changed in the last ~2 years...)

    They don't offer dynamic IPv6 as of yet, which I would like as my ISP will on occasion change the prefix they give me. More often than my IPv4 address changes anyway.


    Jay

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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to Warpslide on Tue Jan 5 21:18:00 2021
    On 01-04-21 14:10, Warpslide wrote to All <=-

    Maybe g00r00 could add something similar to Mystic, something that is framework that could interface directly with bind.

    Shouldn't be too hard, especially if BIND is running on the same machine (simplifies security issues). I played with BIND DDNS capabilities years ago, worked really well.

    For example nrbbs.net is tied to them and bbs.nrbbs.net's IPv4 address
    is updated by a cron job that runs every 10 minutes. (Not that my IP
    has changed in the last ~2 years...)

    My IPs are all static these days. :)

    They don't offer dynamic IPv6 as of yet, which I would like as my ISP
    will on occasion change the prefix they give me. More often than my
    IPv4 address changes anyway.

    Thought I was going to need DDNS for IPv6. While my prefix is static, it's a /56 and my router was changing which block of /64 it was assigning to the LAN, which was a pain. Turned out it was dependent on how the router obtained its IPv6 address. Disabling DHCPv6 fixed the issue, and my /64 LAN prefix has remained stable since. :)


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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Vk3jed on Tue Jan 5 20:11:22 2021
    Shouldn't be too hard, especially if BIND is running on the same machine (simplifies security issues). I played with BIND DDNS capabilities
    years ago,worked really well.

    I was thinking more of Mystic being an update client to someone already running a bind server.

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  • From Charles Pierson@77:1/165 to Warpslide on Tue Jan 5 21:54:39 2021
    On 04 Jan 2021, Warpslide said the following...
    They don't offer dynamic IPv6 as of yet, which I would like as my ISP
    will on occasion change the prefix they give me. More often than my
    IPv4 address changes anyway.


    dynv6.com has Dynamic ipv6. I just canpt seem to figire out why my router us still blocking my v6 Port Forwarding.

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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to Netsurge on Wed Jan 6 19:34:00 2021
    On 01-05-21 20:11, Netsurge wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Shouldn't be too hard, especially if BIND is running on the same machine (simplifies security issues). I played with BIND DDNS capabilities
    years ago,worked really well.

    I was thinking more of Mystic being an update client to someone already running a bind server.

    Then you have to mess with securing the DDNS a lot more, if going out over the open Internet, unless there's now a lot of security in the system (there wasn't initially).


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