[tor-relays] Relay disconnect & offline on IP change

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On Wednesday, 25 September 2024 22:53 Roger Dingledine wrote:

> (C) The old-school way of handling this was to get a dyndns account and
> then set your torrc Address to point to your dyndns hostname. That is,
> you run a periodic tool that reaches out to the service and it makes
> sure to update the hostname it gives you to match your current address.
> 
> Apparently dyndns has turned from the great free service that it used
> to be into a mess of for-profit scamminess. But the nice people on irc
> point me to https://freedns.afraid.org/ as one option that's also been
> around forever and doesn't seem like it's gone scammy yet.

afraid.org is a good choice. Alternative:
https://dns.he.net/
I use it as a secondary (slave) DNS zone for my domain.

If you need help with DynDNS on your router, ask here and specify your router 
model. I have scripts for Mikrotik.

-- 
╰_╯ Ciao Marco!

Debian GNU/Linux

It's free software and it gives you freedom!
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