I finally hit the point where I was forced to learn something about domains and how dns works.
No-IP
had a ton of their domains seized by Microsoft and as a result my
dynamic dns stopped working. I used a servebeer.com domain for years as a
dynamic dns redirect. Used this for my openvpn and lots of other stuff.
I have had spilk.us sitting around for a while and not using it. As a
result I started using free dns from afraid.org to make it work. Now I
was able to create cnames which point to this blog hosted by Google!
I went to freedns.afraid.org, set up an account. Told it my domain, spilk.us.
I then went to my domain registrar, gave it the nameservers for afraid's servers. made an A record for spilk.us with my external IP from my ISP. Then I updated my DDNS with my router to update on afraid. I also was able to finish Hurricane electric's IPv6 certification because I was able to make MX records and AAAA records for ipv6 web (see v6.spilk.us) and ipv6 email (no longer using because I don't actually want to run a mail server).
DNS is pretty cool and pretty well documented out in the world. Just took me the kick in the pants to learn it.
I went to freedns.afraid.org, set up an account. Told it my domain, spilk.us.
I then went to my domain registrar, gave it the nameservers for afraid's servers. made an A record for spilk.us with my external IP from my ISP. Then I updated my DDNS with my router to update on afraid. I also was able to finish Hurricane electric's IPv6 certification because I was able to make MX records and AAAA records for ipv6 web (see v6.spilk.us) and ipv6 email (no longer using because I don't actually want to run a mail server).
DNS is pretty cool and pretty well documented out in the world. Just took me the kick in the pants to learn it.
