The following capabilities are not currently supported in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS:
Webhop (HTTP redirect)
Dynamic DNS
Zone transfer to external nameservers
DNSSEC
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/technologies/migrate-your-services/
If you are going to treat me the same as any new subscriber, where I have to re-signup, re-add my payment method, export my settings and then import them again, you're asking me to buy all over again.
If you ask me to buy, then I get will reevaluate the relationship, and if it's just as easy to migrate to another supplier I will move.
Migrating internally should have been "push this button to accept the new terms and pricing, you don't even need to talk with your registrar."
I've been a Dyn customer for over a decade, and now I'm moving because it's just as easy to move as it is to stay, and I do not want to have to type in "oracle.com" to manage my service.
I changed LIS systems, saved money.
What was really going on: there were a whole bunch of config files, into several of which the installer embedded whatever was the machine IP at install time. Support didn't know exactly how many files there were. Engineering was asked to document them all but for whatever reason were dragging their feet on doing it. My attitude was – why can't we just do a search&replace? Response I got – we can't trust customers/Support to do that without making a mess of it.
Eventually, engineering wrote and shipped a "change machine IP tool" which knew about exactly which config files contained the machine IP. Finally, we had a supported procedure for changing the IP address of the server.
> If you’re a Dyn Managed DNS customer and minimal downtime is acceptable, follow the instructions above to migrate your services to OCI.
> If you’re a Dyn Managed DNS customer and downtime is not acceptable, please check back with us in August when we are planning on having a migration tool available to help avoid downtime.
We happen to be wrapping up a migration to a self-hosted solution, but we chose Dyn because we didn't find "minimal" downtime to be something generally acceptable. [edited this sentence for clarity]
For personal use, it's worth checking out free DNS service from Hurricane Electric, https://dns.he.net/ it includes Dynamic DNS, and Hurricane Electric is probably not going anywhere. I'm not affiliated, but I use their secondaries for my personal domains.
I hear gandi.net's DNS is good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
Dear Customer,
Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.
Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.
I think I will install for my personal domains a good chrooted bind (or powerdns) on a couple of public facing linux servers. AT THIS TIME sounds too intimidating to me.
That's a lot better, right? grin ;)
First as noted, no Dynamic DNS or DNSSEC?? REALLY?? Come on.
Second as also noted, the migration is manually! You have to download a zone record and upload it, and that's after manually creating your account.
I'll be switching to Cloudflare. Been considering it for a while, but now it makes sense.
And the migration is just a sign up for a new service after exporting my zone config? They really don't care about losing customers it would seem. Easy enough, my router supports domains.google.com for ddns and my domain registration is already there, it's time for DNS to follow it.
It is not manual, you don't have to do anything... other than pay consultants to do the migration for you, of course.
/s
All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I?
Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?
[1] https://github.com/joshuaavalon/SynologyCloudflareDDNS [2] https://luvis.se/tipstricks/set-up-dynamic-dns-with-cloudfla...
> All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it.
Was a good run for sure.
Personally I just use Amazon's Route 53 and a ~150 line shell script wrapping awscli[1] to update the records. It's not ddclient but it gets the job done. Cost averages about $1.51/mo. for the DNS service and annual domain renewal—that's for a $12/yr. .info domain; other TLDs will vary. The DNS service pricing depends on the traffic, but at only $0.01 per 25,000 queries it's probably not a significant factor for most of the sites that would benefit from dynamic DNS.
[1] http://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-us...
https://https://www.duckdns.org/
Nothing overly fancy, useable via simple curl calls. I'm just using it to reach my home server, so if you want more advanced features ymmv.
Edit: I'm not affiliatted with the service, I just really like it.
MySql is going strong and is very actively developed. (even if Oracle is predictably trying to have more features in the Enterprise Edition). I'd still always choose Postgres, but that's besides the point.
Java has undergone very positive modernization and change over the last couple of years, following a long period of stagnation, and is the opposite of dying. (Also here, one has to warn though that Oracle is probably trying to abandon the JVM in the long term and move over to GraalVM for monetization).
As a note: you'll have to add a valid payment method on DigitalOcean to activate your account, but once you're in it's free to use all the DNS features, and you can automate via the API, docs here: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#domain...
AFAIK, there is no plans to move to paid service. It makes sense to make DNS management easier for developers if you have your applications or websites running on our droplets.
Today it's relatively easy to build a self-hosted dynamic DNS equivalent, e.g. https://github.com/dprandzioch/docker-ddns so I'm in the process of solving the issue like this.
I run a server at home and I can always just go update my DNS records to some new IP but the catch is I cannot ssh home without knowing the new IP address, hence the point of a dynamic DNS service.
If you host that in the same network, what's the point? You lose access to it too.
> All you need is a cheap VPS, a domain and access to it's nameserver.
I personally find it a bit misleading to classify this as being "self-hosted", seeing as how it's effectively the same as every other dynamic DNS service.
This is very much large companies.
Dear Customer,
Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.
Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.
>Please note, however, that the China Network is being retired. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the China Network will no longer be available, and you will need to find another provider.
I am now in the market for something else. What are the options for small enterprise dns? Cloudflare? Route53? What else
>Now that this integration work is complete, Oracle is announcing the end-of-life of the DNS service in favor of our upgraded version on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the DNS will be retired and will no longer be available. The upgrade to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will require some actions on your part and must be completed on or before the EOL Date.
>You can also upgrade when your current Oracle Dyn or Zenedge contract expires on [contact-end-date]. If you chose to not upgrade by the time your contract renews, your right to access and use the service will be moved to a month to month subscription governed by your current agreement until May 31, 2020. If you do not have auto-renew enabled, your service will end based on your agreement.