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Will Warren
Personal blog · willwarren.comhardwareprogramming
Will Warren's personal blog at willwarren.com covers hardware and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Show HN: Roll your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route53”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on building dynamic DNS updates with AWS Route 53 and a shell script. Commenters cite them as a guide and as the basis for their own DDNS scripts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The blog of an engineer from Canada
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Roll your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route532 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-04
- /2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-using-amazon-route53/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-21
What Hacker News says?
I have a custom system in place for IPv4 to update AWS Route53 based on this script[0] which I could easily extend to update my AAAA records at the same time, but I prefer a stable IP address. Dynamic DNS (v4 or v6) has a tendency to break down for a time whenever the IP address changes until the old records have expired from resolvers' caches. [0] https://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-u...
Comment linking /2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-using-amazon-route53/
on “460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6”Submitted Show HN: Roll your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route53 as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters? Personally I just use Amazon's Route 53 and a ~150 line shell script wrapping awscli[1] to update the records. It's not ddclient but it gets the job done. Cost averages about $1.51/mo. for the DNS service and annual domain renewal—that's for a $12/yr. .info domain; other TLDs will vary. The DNS service pricing depends on the traffic, but at only $0.01 per…
Comment linking /2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-using-amazon-route53/
on “Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020”Submitted Write up of my homebrew CPU build as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI faced the same problem; came up with the same solution :) http://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-us...
Comment linking /2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-using-amazon-route53/
on “Sandcats.io: free dynamic DNS for Sandstorm users”There are a few guides out there, for example: https://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-u... https://www.flynsarmy.com/2015/12/setting-up-dynamic-dns-to-... I setup a simple service to do the same thing, but unfortunately I had to close new registrations due to abuse. The code is open and available at github though: https://github.com/skx/dhcp.io/
Comment linking /2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-using-amazon-route53/
on “Oracle acquires Dyn”