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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    I use a terraform script that pushes my IP up to route 53 every hour. been good enough for me for the last six years.

  • one_knight_scripting@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    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.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    1 day ago

    Bruh mate.
    Mine changes daily so stop complaining that hard xD

    Honest suggestion: Just set up a dyndns with any dns peovider that supports automations.

    • Kaul@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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!

      • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        If your domain registrar doesn’t do DDNS, and you don’t want to pay extra for one that does, you can get free DNS for life at Hurricane Electric:

        https://dns.he.net/

        All you need to do is finish their little online IPv6 course. TBH the “course” is just setting up your own server properly and proving it.

        • Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s one of the features I love about Njalla for domains the most.

          You don’t even need a ddns service because they support updating through simple https calls.

          So I have a super tiny script that basically checks the WAN IP through ipify, then checks that against the routers current WAN IP, and if they match it does nothing and ends, but if its different, it sends out a curl with the new IP. I have it running every few minutes in a cronjob. It’s actually technically my service with the most uptime according to healthchecks.io.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • stratself@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Since nobody mentioned, I recommend https://desec.io/ as the DNS provider. Has a good REST API to update records, also provides a dedyn.io dynamic domain, and runs as a nonprofit. I think ddclient will 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

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    NAT Network Address Translation
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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?