DuckDNS Losing Connection

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I just migrated from PI 3 w/sd card to a Pi 4 with w/ssd and am having an odd issue with connecting via my DuckDNS address. Before the migration everything worked perfect.

When I connect to https://mydomain.duckdns.org internally or externally I lose the connection about every couple of minutes for 20 seconds then it is fine again.

When I lose the connection, I can still get to https://myipaddress:8123 no problem, internally of course.

The only change was modifying my router to open port 8123 → 443 to the new mac address/IP of the Pi 4’s wireless connection.

Any thoughts on what to look at or how to diagnose?

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Same here for more than 16 hours, i thought it is problem in my side and tried to fix it all day, but now i am 100% sure it is DuckDns problem

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Yup, that is it. I added a static DNS in my hosts file on Win 10 and all is fine now. Guess we will wait it out.

Thanks for the reply

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They seem to have a DDNS attack or some other issues during the last 24 hours. We can’t do anything about it, they don’t seem to do anything about it.

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I’d love to hear about duckdns alternatives or back-up concepts. Unreliable DNS service significantly lowers WAF for HA.

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Does your wife really use it that often away from home?

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Enough that when the app didn’t work from her phone today I heard about it. :wink:

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You can use cloadflare if you have your own domain

https://www.freenom.com/en/index.html?lang=en

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