LimboDNS is a nice and simple authoritative Domain Name Server allowing you to run your very own dynamic DNS service with your domain. Like DynDNS on your server with your domains. It's a little side project of LimboMedia and completely independent. Features:
- No complicated installation required. Simply download and run the one-file-server-software.
- Webserver with WebUI included for easy configuration and dynamic DNS updates via HTTP call. I know you're tired of messing around with zone files, zone transfers, bind and crazy scripts just to have DynDNS for some devices in your home network.
- Support for IPv4 and IPv6.
- For linux, windows and other OS capable of running java.
Sounds nice? Here's what you need:
- A domain
- A server with a static IP address
- This nice litte LimboDNS software
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Step 1
Install requirements
This server is written in java and requires an installed java runtime environment. Windows users visit http://java.com/. Linux users type something like
pacman -S jre8-openjdk-headlessorsudo apt-get install default-jre-headlessdepending on your distribution. -
Step 2
Download
Download here
or use wget:wget https://nexus.kuhlins.org/repository/maven-public/net/limbomedia/limbodns/5.7/limbodns-5.7-jar-with-dependencies.jar. -
Step 3
Run
Run
java -jar limbodns-5.7-jar-with-dependencies.jar. -
Step 4
Configure
Visit http://YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS:7777 and configure your domains via Webinterface. There you'll find the HTTP-URL for DynDNS updates, too.
Username and password is "admin" and should be changed inconfig.jsonwhich will be created on the first start.
For sure you'll need to visit your domain-providers homepage to configure the NS record (+ glue record) pointing to your LimboDNS server. -
Step 5
Done
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