Comment by ThrowawayTestr
20 hours ago
No-ip gives out free dynamic DNS with a static URL. I use it for Sunshine desktop streaming when I travel.
20 hours ago
No-ip gives out free dynamic DNS with a static URL. I use it for Sunshine desktop streaming when I travel.
Yeah, but then you are always exposing your public IP.
Exposing it to what exactly? The internet? Yes that's how it works
If somebody learns that such-and-such DynDNS URL is mine, they can always do a DNS lookup to find my current IP address. They can:
- find my approximate physical location
- regularly scan ports on my IP and wait for me to accidentally expose a service I didn't mean to
- track me in any access logs they have access to
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This requires no port forwarding, so someone brute force scanning your IP won't find this and your open port. they also might have a harder time figuring out what service has been exposed since the port number itself will be unknown.