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Ask HN: Pseudo Static Ip Service

3 points by xandroid4net ↗ HN
I am an ameteur home automation hacker and I am looking for a service that would securely track only my external ip address so that I could have a way to look up my exteral ip remotely.

Are there any services like that? I cant seem to find any.

Is that type of service in demand or am I a lone wolf?

6 comments

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detaro
you are looking for a dyn-DNS / dynamic DNS service like noip.com
ohyeshedid
You could use Cloudflare for DNS and their API[1] for updating a subdomain of your own to your dynamic ip. With that, you could also use the dehydrated[2] script with dns challenges to host subdomains with ssl on your lan. It's all easily automated, as well.

[1]:https://gist.github.com/larrybolt/6295160 [2]: https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated

I can't suggest that cloudflare script, as I've long since rolled my own, but there are plenty of examples out there.