Thursday, August 18, 2022

dynamic dns options

I wanted to try out self-hosting using BSNL's fiber internet. One of the ways to get dynamic dns to work is to use Cloudflare's api and the script given at

Unfortunately the script needs Powershell 7, which only ships with Windows Server - I was trying out on a Win11 home machine. Even with Win10 Pro, this approach may not work. 

Of course, there are bash scripts which can do the job, like

But, since it was available, tried the Dynamic DNS option in our syRoTech ONT - Device Model SY-GPON-1110-WDONT. 

Under Application - DDNS menu option, we can set dynamic dns from oray.com (a Chinese site), DynDNS and NoIP. Since NoIP has a free plan, set up a free hopto.org sub-domain with NoIP, and made appropriate CNAMEs in our organisation's DNS - working fine. 

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