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by puffoflogic 1496 days ago
Depending on what you're actually running at your IP, consider if dynv6.com will work for your dynamic IP. I switched and I've never noticed a difference really. Only one machine on the /64 (or /60 or whatever you have) has to actually ping dynv6 service; it automatically updates the prefix for all other AAAA records. Moreover I've got it set up with a dead simple shell script using curl, no service-specific binaries needed.

Indeed, at this point my only problem is my ISP router will not route the WAN ipv4 address to the appropriate host when the source is on the LAN, meaning I have to use ipv6 to access my public facing server while at home.

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I have a custom system in place for IPv4 to update AWS Route53 based on this script[0] which I could easily extend to update my AAAA records at the same time, but I prefer a stable IP address. Dynamic DNS (v4 or v6) has a tendency to break down for a time whenever the IP address changes until the old records have expired from resolvers' caches.

[0] https://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-u...