Hi All,
Wondering if anyone has tried the Dynamic DNS support Vultr offers?
https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-setup-dynamic-dns
Interesting that Vultr is using their API on the server and a Python app on the client to update their DNS hosting service. With this in mind, it only follows that if one wanted, a local VFP WebConnect machine could be providing the same DNS updating. I wonder if there would be any benifit to dropping Python and rewriting in VFP/WC code.
Opinions ?
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What do you need DDNS for from your Web Server? Vultr gives you a fixed IP.
+++ Rick ---
Also related Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code support something called Dev Tunnels that essentially provide a local proxying service so you can call local HTTP endpoints from the open Web.
Here's the VS Code CLI version (probably works for anything):
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/tunnels
For local development you can just map a specific IP address to your Hosts file. For remote you can also use passthrough ports on your router to route to your local machine. But ISPs don't look on that kindly... 😄
I do the latter occasionally and then have home.west-wind.com mapped to my ISP IP address, and the router forwards to my machine.
+++ Rick ---
I have some apps that run on local machines and from time to time it would be nice to access from the outside. Using a public DDNS service always seemed like a security risk, never knowing who is in control of the software that is updating the root DNS server.
Anyways, seeing this feature on Vultr got me thinking about the possibilities and being able to safely host a local server on my fiber connection. Nothing I am rushing into today, I still have a long list of other To-Do projects and limited time to take on anything else.