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

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 05/01/14 14:33, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> 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
> 

This is a good point.  If I'm breaking people's configuration, I won't
use a default provider.

But I really want to give as sign to dyndns I don't like their decision
to stop the free service even if you use any other payed service. Maybe
I could check with the people providing the package for ddclient on the
different distributions what's their opinion.

Regards,

wimpunk.