I'm sold: rest of domains moved to freedns.afraid.org
News, Technical ·Sunday February 26, 2012 @ 17:00 EST (link)
The last time Bright House changed my IP for some random reason (I have my doubts if there's ever a good reason for in-use dynamic IP addresses to change), I moved one domain (i4031.net) over to freedns.afraid.org, since after looking around they appeared to be the best free DNS provider that allowed for automated updates. That was back in November. They just did it again, so I took the plunge and moved the rest of my domains over. It was a bit of a pain, but when they went and changed my IP again just a few minutes ago, it just took opening one URL to auto-update all the A (address) records. (If they start regularly changing the IP frequently, I could hook it up to a DHCP client script easily.) Anyway, I just wanted to say what a great service freedns.afraid.org is (they ask for a mention but don't require it, nor do they advertise on, frame/wrap, or redirect your domains without asking, or AFAICT do anything else remotely underhanded). Great lightweight (oppose GoDaddy's!) DNS manager; programmatic control; DNS dumps in XML or ASCII; they are far superior to GoDaddy in all ways for DNS management.
(As an aside, Firefox seems to have a bug where sometimes, at least with a laptop trackpad, it will ignore clicks on a web page (URL bar is fine); it seems related to having a site in another tab that is either slow to load or failing and retrying; at least, closing a tab with a slow-loading page in it made clicking work again.)
Books finished: Foundation and Empire.
