dynamic dns service

Over the weekend, we started getting a bunch of reports from folks claiming that the dynamic DNS service afraid.org had been seized in the latest DHS/ICE domain seizures, and that all of the sites associated with afraid.org had been replaced with a notice that they had been seized over child porn claims.

The main site involved was mooo.com. If you're unfamiliar with the way these dynamic DNS services work, they basically let you put a permanent URL, often using a subdomain like putsomesubdomainhere.mooo.com, and then you point it at whatever machine is actually hosting your content.

Linux and Open Source: "In this final tip, we configure ISC’s DHCPd service, which will serve the DHCP-based IP addresses to clients and update the DNS records accordingly."

Linux and Open Source: "Running a home DNS server is not without its benefits. The same holds true for running a home DHCP server.

The two together provide an easy way to reference individual systems using DNS names for the local network, and the ability to dynamically allocate local IP addresses as systems come and go."