Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by amatecha on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:30PM (#23000299)

Yep, free dynamic DNS still exists, for example NoIP https://www.noip.com/ However, you have to refresh it each month by filling out a "I'm still using it" web form they email you. So, you can't just set it & forget it.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by traden210 on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:12PM (#23000720)

I use Namecheap, but other providers offer it as well: free dyndns service with a domain - no monthly checkin required.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by amatecha on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:24PM (#23001389)

Wait Namecheap has dyndns service as well? Nice, I shall check into this! I have a few domains with them. Thanks :)

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by Semaphor on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:06AM (#23004305)

https://freedns.afraid.org/

Works in the free tier as set and forget. As long as you keep updating it (with whatever API), it works. Filling out a form manually makes NoIP sound like a horrible service.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:44AM (#23016895)

I use Now-DNS.com and you don't have to check in with them.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by kragen on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:08PM (#23002204)

it really isn't that hard to set up dynamic dns yourself. like maybe a day of work. just don't forget to upgrade your dns server software when exploits are discovered

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by franga2000 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:59AM (#23004676)

Running your own DNS server (if that's what you're suggesting) just for dynamic DNS is extremely unnecessary. Not to mention the case of someone who doesn't have another server with a static IP to host the DNS on.

All but the worst of the worst providers have an API of some sort and if you're savvy enough to set up BIND, you can handle writing a curl command to post your IP to the API and sticking it into cron.

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