I called my ISP today to set up a static IP because my services keep being taken down from my IP changing. I either need a business plan or a 5-10gbps residential plan to do that…
I cannot get on the business plan without a valid Business ID so that’s not an option. And no way in hell I’m paying for those speeds.
Anyone have any alternatives to stop this from happening so often? My public IP seems to change regularly every 2-3 weeks and it’s getting pretty frustrating having to reconfigure things. I only have 2 ISPs in my area and they are both terrible. I assume I’m out of luck, but maybe there’s some tech magic I’m unaware of.
Dynamic dns. Use it.
I use afraid.org.
Another option would be to just use tailscale.
But if you want unlimited tailscale you will have to host that too and also dynamic dns. Important note, idk what firewall you have, I have a UDM Pro, so that updates my dynamic dns automatically, yours may have something similar.
If you’re able to do away with ISP routers with ISP restrictions I highly recommend doing so - hint OpenWRT. Otherwise, Duckdns with cron is your friend:
https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=z092FGtP6ME
Or
Bruh mate.
Mine changes daily so stop complaining that hard xDHonest suggestion: Just set up a dyndns with any dns peovider that supports automations.
afraid.org for dns and they have a dead simple way to keep it up to date. I have it running at work in a crontab that sends the current IP every thirty minutes. The site looks old because it is but it functions great.
https://www.howtogeek.com/866573/what-is-dynamic-dns-ddns-and-how-do-you-set-it-up/
I use ddclient with cloudflare as my domains nameserver.
Never had a static ip, but I’ve never had an issue with it changing because I’ve always used this.
Ok great, this sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Have seen the term DDNS used before but didn’t know it was for this. Thanks!
Since nobody mentioned, I recommend https://desec.io/ as the DNS provider. Has a good REST API to update records, also provides a
dedyn.iodynamic domain, and runs as a nonprofit. I thinkddclientwill also support it natively in the next release as well.The solution of renting a VPS also works but usually incurs some cost. You might also want to look into Cloudflare Tunnels
That is a bit crazy if you are in the US. There is no ‘business Id’ just say you are a sole proprietorship, meaning the business is just you, no corporation structure or anything like that and you are dba, doing business as, and your name.
That is how you technically describe yourself when you are a business when you are a person.
Your tax id number would just be your social security number.
It’s legal to transact business as a person.
Well that’s some good info to have in general. Think I’m okay with using DDNS but this is good to know.
Yeah, it’s easier to start a business than people think.
Proxy through a VPS, or use dynamic DNS if you don’t mind occasionally waiting for TTL expiration when your address suddenly changes. You can set it to 1 minute and that often works these days (it didn’t always).
Will your ISP give you a static IPv6 block? It’s v4 that’s scarce, but if it’s just for your own stuff and you aren’t worried about users on old v4-only networks, it’s fine to just use pure v6.
If you want a super cheap VPS with static ipv6 and NAT v4, try tierhive.com.
Ddns as others said or use cloudflare dns with cloudflare tunnel
I use duckdns.org and then make use of CNAME records pointed at the duckdns record for my own domain name/subdomains.
My router (unifi device) keeps duck DNS up to date with my changing IP, but there’s lots of ways to get that done.
You could consider tailnet or similar as well?
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Duckdns.org and then set up a cron to update it regularly
Duck it!
I think the default solution for this is to use a dynamic dns. There are services for that or you can get yourself a domain and configure that as dnydns in your router. That is what I am doing atleast
DDNS is the way. Or was, until Tailscale.
Still kinda is. Some devices might not be able to connect to your tailnet. You might be trying to reach your devices from a device that isn’t on your VPN. The funnel might work, if you can work within its limitations.
