This is one of the most solid and longest lasting services online. Have been using it for almost two decades I think and nothing's changed.
This is one of the most solid and longest lasting services online. Have been using it for almost two decades I think and nothing's changed.
> and nothing's changed
One thing has changed. At some point, they introduced the 'shared management queue', and any random person can attach a subdomain to my domains, and apparently I have to explicitly deny these. Until then, scammers can create a subdomain on my domain, point it to whatever IP they want, and use it for their nefarious purposes.
I get that I'm a freeloader: I haven't paid for FreeDNS, so I can't complain much. But this seems like a terrible 'feature'. If I were a pro subscriber, my domains would be private and therefore not available for scammers to use. I've migrated all but one of my domains away from the service (they were all trivially easy - just haven't finished the last one).
20+-year long user here, not an issue once. Josh replied to emails then and replies today still. Let's just hope there's someone to continue should something happen to him (chosen diety forbid).
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Why dns is a topic eludes me because they all forward to root hint servers.
Why doesn't everyone just use their IANA resolvers?
You're conflating two different concepts: DNS hosting, and DNS resolving.
This service seems to offer hosting services, i.e. publishing your domain's records in the DNS in DNS authoritative servers.
A DNS resolution service looks up and maintains large caches of DNS data on your behalf, optimizing DNS lookups by not requiring your own device to recursively query many different DNS servers. These lookups start by querying the DNS root zone, which is published by the DNS's authoritative servers which are listed in the root hints file.
This service and similar ones live on because a lot of routers support setting your dynamic IP to a dns name by using these services. The services are incredibly simple but finding a service that your server actually supports is a gamble.
Set your system’s resolver to the iana roots and see what happens
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