Hey guys. Fixed it.

Turns out, if you forget to renew your subdomain with no-ip exactly every thirty days, they'll just remove your address from the internet. Guess what I forgot? (o_O)

That's [bleep]ing stupid, if you ask me! \(>_<)/

I should have gone with afraid.org to begin with. I already had an account,
and I know for fact that they don't pull stupid [bleep] like that. The only reason I chose no-ip is because my router had them as an option in its DDNS settings, but not afraid.org.

no-ip: 1 out of 10, would *not* recommend. t(-_-t)

But, at least now, PiBBS has a backup address!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.raspberryip.com

Ugh. Doesn't look nearly as good... (q_q)

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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But, at least now, PiBBS has a backup address!

And there's the BinkP traffic. Seems like everything's back to normal, such
as normal is when I'm involved...(^_^)

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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Hello McDoob!

On 18 Mar 2022, McDoob said the following...

I should have gone with afraid.org to begin with. I already had an

The only downside of afraid.org is that you have to log in in through their webpage every now and then in order not to get de-listed (at least if you're using their free services). Those mails seemed to end up in my spambox so I often missed them... :-/

Some other DDNS providers (e.g. nsupdate.info) don't require manual logins.

Best regards
Zip

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I should have gone with afraid.org to begin with. I already had an

The only downside of afraid.org is that you have to log in in through their webpage every now and then in order not to get de-listed (at least if you're using their free services). Those mails seemed to end up in my spambox so I often missed them... :-/

Really? That wasn't the case when I last used them, a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away...Basically the same as no-ip then...that's not gonna
work for me...

Some other DDNS providers (e.g. nsupdate.info) don't require manual logins.

I will check out nsupdate.info and any other suggestions you may have!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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Hello McDoob!

On 18 Mar 2022, McDoob said the following...

in a galaxy far far away...Basically the same as no-ip then...that's not gonna work for me...

Right -- one wants to be able to leave things unattended...

I will check out nsupdate.info and any other suggestions you may have!

I guess just about any DDNS provider should work fine as long as it doesn't require manual intervention, and as long as it is supported by your router or other DDNS client. I use "ddclient" here, and I believe most DDNS providers and clients support the "DynDNS v2" protocol for updates.

Some DDNS providers even provide wget/curl command lines -- allowing them to be scheduled in a cron job or similar -- although that will update the DNS record even when there is no change, so if executed too often might get you blocked because of the unnecessary ("abusive") updates... So a DDNS client is probably the right way to go. =)

Best regards
Zip

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Right -- one wants to be able to leave things unattended...

I guess just about any DDNS provider should work fine as long as it doesn't require manual intervention, and as long as it is supported by your router or other DDNS client.

For now, I'm going to continue taking the easiest possible route, and just
stay on pibbs.sytes.net. But I'm sure this isn't the last time this happens, and it's going to pi--uh, cook me off more and more each time...

I'm calm now, and lazy. I just smoked a doob. (o_-)

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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McDoob wrote to Zip <=-

I guess just about any DDNS provider should work fine as long as it doesn't require manual intervention, and as long as it is supported by your router or other DDNS client.

For now, I'm going to continue taking the easiest possible route,
and just stay on pibbs.sytes.net. But I'm sure this isn't the
last time this happens, and it's going to pi--uh, cook me off
more and more each time...

I've used no-ip's free services for several years and am VERY pleased with them. I get an email reminding me to renew/verify my hostname(s) every month, and it has a clickable link to do so, and takes about 8 seconds.

They also offer a little DDNS client that I have running on a Pi, that
checks my "public" IP address and reports/changes it to them (no-ip), in
case my IP address changes. I have it set to do that every six hours, but
it's completely configurable however you want it. Works perfectly.


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I've used no-ip's free services for several years and am VERY pleased
with them. I get an email reminding me to renew/verify my hostname(s) every month, and it has a clickable link to do so, and takes about 8 seconds.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that email got sent to the junkbox this month. I did
see it last time. I'll look into that...

They also offer a little DDNS client that I have running on a Pi, that checks my "public" IP address and reports/changes it to them (no-ip), in case my IP address changes. I have it set to do that every six hours,
but it's completely configurable however you want it. Works perfectly.

So does the client in my router.

Aside from being annoyed at this minor outage, I don't have any real
complaints about no-ip. But, if there's options out there that don't have
this limitation, perform just as well, and are relatively easy to set up, why not explore them?

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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This is late I know but...

Turns out, if you forget to renew your subdomain with no-ip exactly every thirty days, they'll just remove your address from the internet. Guess what I forgot? (o_O)

But they send you an email with active link to renew it, and you get a grace period before they cut you off... 7 or 14 days... I forget which... most
other DNS services work in a similar fashion its one way of making sure
you're still alive not just wasting their space with a dead service.

no-ip: 1 out of 10, would *not* recommend. t(-_-t)

Probably a bit harsh.. you're looking for a Zero maintenance service, not
sure if that even exists.

Tchuss, ST

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