I’m starting to play with an old laptop that I have installed Ubuntu Server on, with Nextcloud and Docker.
Using Docker Compose I installed Nginx and now I would like to try to do the DDNS thing on a domain that I registered with an Italian provider.
I looked at a few DynDns providers and they seem to me to be all American or in any case on American infrastructure (DuckDNS on AWS, etc)
Is there anything you can recommend that is EU-based and who has a good reputation in general?
Free is preferred.
Pretty sure you’d be better of with a tunnel like Cloudflare Tunnels, Tailscale, or something similar. They couldn’t care less if your ip address changes. Of course Cloudflare is a big corp and doesn’t fit your bill but it’s the idea I mean not the corp and it is probably the most well known
Look into self hosting pangolin on VPS. I have it hosted at infomaniak.ch - it’s basically a self hosted cloudflare tunnel, so you are not exposing your IP. These days this is absolutely preferred over using dyndns and exposing your IP.
Most registrars also run DNS servers as part of the fee you pay for the domain. Usually they have an API. You can just use that to implement Dynamic DNS, there are even often tools for it. Do a search for your DNS registrar and dyndns.
I’m not sure what you mean by non-spying, but you should be prepared for anything you put on the Internet to be poked by any number of people that you do not want poking. If whatever you are hosting would be compromised by having a DNS name, you might want to rethink your security plan.
Afraid.org is better than DuckDNS. (DuckDNS is not reliable and have been slow or down a lot.)
But it is still American.
You might try DNS4EU: 86.54.11.1 86.54.11.201 DoH: https://protective.joindns4.eu/dns-query DoT: protective.joindns4.eu
That seems to be for dns resolving, not for ddns? Or am I missing something?
I have looked at it already and I didn’t find anything that wasn’t a resolver.
I’m sorry, its been a long day.
DNS4EU doesn’t provide DDNS service, you are correct. Checkout deSEC, they partner with DNS4EU and the EU as part of the initiative to limit dependency on US based infrastructure.
This one has been suggested also in other threads, seems like the best option.
One thing I noticed is that virtually all the EU DDNS providers are German. Is there a reason for it?
