afraid.org no longer in DNS-O-MATIC DDNS list?

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PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 14:39    Post subject: afraid.org no longer in DNS-O-MATIC DDNS list? Reply with quote
I just logged into my account to reactive a freedns.afraid.org account I had deactivated for a few days and it's just gone. It's not even in the list when you go to "add new service."

Here's what it used to look like:


And a screenshot I just took:


Anyone have any info? I sent OpenDNS an email but no reply yet.
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dale_gribble39
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 18:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's still listed here:

https://www.dnsomatic.com/docs/supportedservices

Did you try clicking "expand all"?

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PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 20:05    Post subject: Reply with quote
dale_gribble39 wrote:
It's still listed here:

https://www.dnsomatic.com/docs/supportedservices

Did you try clicking "expand all"?


The only two I had in there were freedns.afraid.org accounts and both are gone. I didn't delete them.
I tried to re-add and it's not even in the list anymore.

In fact without even changing anything, I confirmed it in the DDNS section of DD-WRT.
I don't know when it started exactly, but I had a huge log window saying this. Never seen it before. That's why I'm asking on these forums as a last resort.

If you go to "Your Service" on DNS-O-MATIC's site, right click and view source code, you can see afraid.org isn't in the list.

Code:

                                    <option value="81" >activeDNS</option>
                                    <option value="73" >ALL-INKL.COM</option>
                                    <option value="4" >ChangeIP</option>
                                    <option value="57" >city|network</option>
                                    <option value="61" >CloudFlare</option>
                                    <option value="59" >ClouDNS</option>
                                    <option value="105" >deSEC</option>
                                    <option value="27" >DLinkDDNS</option>
                                    <option value="5" >DNS Made Easy</option>
                                    <option value="20" >DNSexit</option>
                                    <option value="17" >DSL Reports Monitor</option>
                                    <option value="34" >DuckDNS</option>
                                    <option value="101" >dy.fi</option>
                                    <option value="95" >dynaccess.de</option>
                                    <option value="2" >DynDNS</option>
                                    <option value="97" >dyndns.berlin</option>
                                    <option value="99" >dyndns.it</option>
                                    <option value="50" >dyndnsfree.de</option>
                                    <option value="46" >DynDNSService</option>
                                    <option value="8" >DynIP</option>
                                    <option value="24" >dynu</option>
                                    <option value="7" >easyDNS</option>
                                    <option value="22" >eNom</option>
                                    <option value="53" >EntryDNS</option>
                                    <option value="67" >freedyn.de</option>
                                    <option value="36" >Google Domains</option>
                                    <option value="93" >gratisdns.de</option>
                                    <option value="31" >HE DNS</option>
                                    <option value="89" >internet.bs</option>
                                    <option value="69" >Loopia</option>
                                    <option value="83" >MyOnlinePortal</option>
                                    <option value="25" >NameCheap</option>
                                    <option value="63" >nic.ru</option>
                                    <option value="71" >Night Owl DDNS</option>
                                    <option value="3" >No-IP</option>
                                    <option value="44" >nsupdate.info</option>
                                    <option value="85" >nubem</option>
                                    <option value="1" >OpenDNS</option>
                                    <option value="77" >Oray</option>
                                    <option value="38" >OVH</option>
                                    <option value="79" >PubYun</option>
                                    <option value="21" >regfish</option>
                                    <option value="75" >SafeDNS</option>
                                    <option value="16" >Security Space</option>
                                    <option value="65" >selfHOST.de</option>
                                    <option value="103" >servermaster.de</option>
                                    <option value="19" >Sitelutions</option>
                                    <option value="42" >SPDNS</option>
                                    <option value="40" >STRATO</option>
                                    <option value="87" >Tekea</option>
                                    <option value="33" >Tunnelbroker</option>
                                    <option value="11" >WorldWideDNS.net</option>
                                    <option value="55" >yDNS</option>
                                    <option value="91" >zone.be</option>
                                    <option value="12" >ZoneEdit</option>
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dale_gribble39
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 20:53    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can't seem to find any announcement that DNS-O-MATIC dropped support for freedns.afraid.org. How peculiar.
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PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 21:05    Post subject: Reply with quote
dale_gribble39 wrote:
I can't seem to find any announcement that DNS-O-MATIC dropped support for freedns.afraid.org. How peculiar.


Neither can I. Maybe you can just make an account and look right now?
PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 21:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you look at this old video from 11 years ago, the list looks very different than it does today. I never kept track of who dns-o-matic has added and dropped over the years, but sometime within the last 3 days, afraid.org is not in the list for me and both of my entries are deleted.

https://youtu.be/9gJ-hGLc6YI?t=28

It could be an error or a bug which is why I emailed them, but I'm hoping someone can check their account and let me know if it's still on their list or not.
d00zah
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 22:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
There was an outage the other day that caused updates (mine, at least) to fail for a stretch. Might be an overreaction?

https://freedns.afraid.org/news/

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dale_gribble39
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 23:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
d00zah wrote:
There was an outage the other day that caused updates (mine, at least) to fail for a stretch. Might be an overreaction?

https://freedns.afraid.org/news/

^^^^ This could make sense if the choices on DNS-O-MATIC were populated via script that checks availability of supported services...

PainbowDDWRT wrote:
dale_gribble39 wrote:
I can't seem to find any announcement that DNS-O-MATIC dropped support for freedns.afraid.org. How peculiar.


Neither can I. Maybe you can just make an account and look right now?

I'm sure the news would be posted somewhere where an account is not required. It's a shame that nobody else that has a DNS-O-MATIC account is willing to comment or participate in this quest.

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And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost

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<fact>code knows no gender</fact>

This is me, knowing I've ruffled your feathers, and not giving a ****
Some people are still hard-headed.

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zmeikov
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:55    Post subject: Reply with quote
Afraid is gone from all my dnsomatic.com accounts as well. In the mean time I could get away by using custom firewall command like this


Code:
curl -k https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&foo=
PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:58    Post subject: Reply with quote
zmeikov wrote:
Afraid is gone from all my dnsomatic.com accounts as well. In the mean time I could get away by using custom firewall command like this


Code:
curl -k https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&foo=


Thank you for confirming, and thank you for the alternative method.
zmeikov
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 3:23    Post subject: Reply with quote
PainbowDDWRT wrote:
zmeikov wrote:
Afraid is gone from all my dnsomatic.com accounts as well. In the mean time I could get away by using custom firewall command like this


Code:
curl -k https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&foo=


Thank you for confirming, and thank you for the alternative method.


Some of my dd-wrt routers (with 8mb flash) do not support curl command. The binary itself is nowhere to be found in "/usr/bin". You should try the above command with SSH/putty first to make sure it works.

If curl is not available you can use wget instead

Code:
wget https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 8:37    Post subject: Reply with quote
Does anyone know a bash script that runs the CURL command above every so often?

Afraid.org is still not on the dns-o-matic list and I don't think it's coming back so I need an alternative way to run those manual URLs for my domains.

I run a few Debian Linux terminals 24/7 so it wouldn't be a problem adding it in one of them, or perhaps a way to permanently add it right in DDWRT that will work even on reboot? I don't have JFFS enabled. I'm not skilled enough to know the best place to do it which is why I was using DNS-O-MATIC as my DDNS entry in DDWRT in the first place.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 8:44    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why not use another supported provider, there are plenty available for free Smile
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PainbowDDWRT
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:54    Post subject: Reply with quote
egc wrote:
Why not use another supported provider, there are plenty available for free Smile


I like my domains with freedns.afraid.org and have been using them for years. Years and years.

I don't think there's a good reason why DNS-O-MATIC removed them from their supported list, and the fact that I didn't even get a reply to my email about it tells me something shady is going on over there.

I, and I bet others, would just like a little help for an alternative.

I guess there is this but it's pretty old and I don't want to enable JFFS right now. https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Useful_Scripts#DynDNS_Updates_Using_Curl_.28with_HTTPS.2FSSL_Support.29
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 20:30    Post subject: Afraid.org Reply with quote
I lost all my afraid.org info on Dnsomatic also. Has anyone tried the steps in the link in the previous post using the jffs to update multiple ddns services?
Seems a little complicated.
Not a total noob messing with router config but don't want to mess something up.
BTW, I've emailed them too (Dnsomatic)(twice now) and never got anything other than an autoreply back.
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