Re: [Ddclient-support] Replacement for the default service

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-05-01:
> It's been announced a while and now dyndns will stop offering
> free services.  I don't know yet which service I will use but
> which one would you suggest for ddclient as default service?
> Any special reasons why?

POLA [1] would dictate to leave the default as-is, as to not
break the configuration of people relying on the current default
(some users might actually stay with dyndns, some might be paying
customers today already).  POLA would be important too for
distributions packaging ddclient, in their continuous struggle to
provide clean upgrade paths to their users.

If you are willing to break some people's configurations, then I
would suggest removing the default altogether and not having a
default protocol, thereby forcing people to explicitly specify
their service in the configuration.  This seems to be cleanest
from a technical point of view and it does not endorse any
specific provider of dynamic DNS services.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#pola-glossary

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