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Zoho.com has email hosting, including a free account that includes up to five users and supports one domain. There are tools to move everything over from GSuite and Office 365 but they may cost extra. I've been using their service for years and it's good. I even have a domain attached to my account. I have my domain hosted at freedns.afraid.org.

Zoho asks you to make an entry in your DNS record in order to prove that you actually own the domain name. Then it's just a matter of making the entries that Zoho provides into the domain record.

Then use FreeDNS at afraid.org https://freedns.afraid.org/ to manage the domain for free. All it costs is the domain.

Running your own mail server isn't as easy as that and you have to worry about protecting it from the Internet.

Don't most domain registrars provide DNS when you purchase the domain? Mine does in any case (nearlyfreespeech.net).

Easier just to go to someplace like Zoho.com and host your mail there for free if you don't have much mail. Then use FreeDNS at afraid.org https://freedns.afraid.org/ to manage the domain for free. All it costs is the domain.

Running your own mail server isn't as easy as that and you have to worry about protecting it from the Internet.

Free domain hosting: https://freedns.afraid.org/

Free email hosting (can use your domain): https://www.zoho.com/

I'd like to find a place that has free web hosting with your own pages (not WordPress.com or anything like that).

If you are looking for DNS hosting I've been using https://freedns.afraid.org/ for many years without issue.

Try getting your own domain. You can host it for free at https://freedns.afraid.org/ and then find a free mail provider. I have used https://www.zoho.com/ for the past couple of years and been pleased with them. You could also skip the domain and just get your mail at Zoho (or where you get your free mail from). With Zoho you get a number of mail accounts with their free program so if you create your own domain you can have accounts for your family or friends.

Hi:

This is what I have done for my dynamicIP issue:

Register a subdomain with Allowed.org or Moo.com or afraid.com
e.g. myhome.allowed.org

Next goto your real domain registrar or edit your own DNS server and create a CNAME for a subdomain that points to what you registered.
e.g. myhome.mydomain.com -> myhome.allowed.org

Just be aware that it has no rDNS.

Next, create a script that updates your IP whenever you notice it changes using this script:
wget http://freedns.afraid.org/scri...

So, for my purposes: I heavily restrict ssh on my C5 servers to specific domains/IPs using shorewall.
Whenever my IP would change i risked getting locked out and had to resort to a jump host.
Now, instead I have a shorewall param that sets some var to myhome.allowed.org and a rule that permits ssh using that var.

Then just run a cronjob to update the IPaddress on a regular basis.

Hope this helps.

Freedns has been around for ages, and doesn't seem to be going anywhere. They include DDNS for free as well.

No-IP is a great free dynamic DNS alternative http://noip.co/1jVi5th

their free service also requires you to sign in every month. I'd suggest a service like http://freedns.afraid.org/ which is completely free and doesn't require monthly logins to keep your account active.

I switched over to http://freedns.afraid.org/ after they started requiring you to log in monthly and haven't looked back since.

I linked it before.

https://freedns.afraid.org/dyn...

They have a dynamic IP updater that you can use and so you can just set your nameservers on your godaddy domain to afraid's nameservers and then you will have dynamic IP on your godaddy or anyone else's domain.

Why spend $25 when you can get an even better and likely shorter domain form something like godaddy or domain.com for about $8 a year for a .com?

You can use http://freedns.afraid.org/ to make your .com work with a dynamic IP too and that's free.

Been very happy with https://freedns.afraid.org/ ever since dyndns deleted my free domain because I didn't login to their website once a month.

This happened to me as well; I used to use dyndns but I lost my domain when they switched the domain I had been using to a "premium" one so then I had to go and reconfigure everything that depended on it to a new domain so after looking at some other alternatives I ultimately decided to use EntryDNS with my own domain I bought from GoDaddy.

EntryDNS is donation driven and doesn't have any of the bull I found at over services (login once a month, upgrade to premium spam, link back to their site, etc..) and you have both the option of using a free subdomain and/or using your own domain. I've been very happy with their service and am considering donating something as a token of appreciation.

Been very happy with https://freedns.afraid.org/ ever since dyndns deleted my free domain because I didn't login to their website once a month.

There are free(mium) alternatives to DynDNS, like freedns, so you can change providers if one tanks. If you use your own domain (like freedns allows you to do), you can switch between them without much trouble (you'll just change your NS with the registrar).

Run your own mailserver and pay for backup MX service. This helps ease any worries you may have about losing email (due to your server/ISP downtime, etc). The backup MX is only used if your mail server can't be contacted and will hold mail while you fix the situation. (From a privacy perspective, your email will only be vulnerable to third part disclosure during the times that you're experiencing some sort of catastrophe.)

The sysadmin work is certainly something to deal with, but if you stick with a barebones install and a stable (but actively supported) mail server, you can keep your involvement to a minimum. I find SpamAssassin to to a great job of filtering spam.

There's some work involved in setting everything up, but maintaining it all is pretty painless.

I don't know about genocide as such...but flame troops, flame towers and Tesla coils are surely illegal internationally. Not to mention tactical nukes, using Tanya to C4 civilian buildings, flattening people with tanks, demolishing bridges, etc. On the other hand, why should the same international laws exist in Sci Fi alternate histories? In the RA timeline, WW2 never takes place so the UN is never formed and international law doesn't evolve nearly as much. The US isn't even helping Europe defend against Stalin's invasion.

I just got back in to RA1, and it's without a doubt one of the best RTS games ever made. It was released as freeware and there's an unofficial release with compatibility, resolution and internet play patches for current Windows - you can download it from redalert1.com. The RA archive has it too, but I'm not sure theirs has the resolution and network patches.

will need dynDNS, not sure how well that works

Don't expect a Dyndns free account to work for longer than a year or so, even following the rules. I don't mind they want paid but if its a "time expirey" free offer, just say so upfront. I was using their client software which which was all up to date and they booted me for inactivity WTF. Still unemployed so, No I can't afford to pay them. I just need to lojack my daughter's laptop so it phones home. Trying http://freedns.afraid.org/ and wget. YMMV

If you're okay with a subdomain rather than looking to register directly under a TLD, FreeDNS is another one that's been around for a while, though they target themselves a bit more at people who want a changeable hostname for their dynamic IP (a free alternative to the used-to-be-free-but-now-isn't DynDNS).

My DHCP address stays same because my server is always up. When it doesn't, theres afraid.org.

I can see that you have not adjusted your thinking to the concept of the absence of copyright.

For instance you wrote: "it's the copyright on it that legally guarantees the source code will remain free."

Your software will be free if there is no copyright.

Then: "Without copyright, another organization could appropriate it, close it up, and release a derivative work without so much as an acknowledgement that they got it from me, costing me potential reputation,"

Just release the closed version yourself, with credits embedded.

And really, its not so hard or expensive to set up a domain. Mine cost me an old computer and the power to run it. UBUNTU is free, APACHE is free, FREEDNS is free. And a few bucks a year to Godaddy for DNS registry. As you can write code, doing all that should be as easy as pi. (oops, pie).

And as an independent programmer, how can you have any street cred without your own domain?

DNS is great, except I'm sure the bastards at ISP headquarters will still charge a monthly fee for a static ipv6 addy and more for a block.... simply because they CAN... and is there a free dynamic dns solution? Last i checked (some years back), no.

Sure. They even specifically support IPv6.

I've also had good luck with CloudFlare, who includes DNS as part of their free service. That includes dynamic DNS.

Afraid.org also does free DNS, including dyanmic DNS and IPv6.

I've been using this site for a while now and I must say I like it.

Personally, I grew up with a smallish rocking chair and used a laptop. When I grew out of that, I put together a custom setup involving a car's bucket seat(1), a "lap desk" suspended from the ceiling above me which my monitor and keyboard tray are mounted. It seems to work nicely - 8 hours with barely a break or two and I'm not feeling much strain at all.
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/images/20110917_005-small.jpg

(1) - Think: Cars these days generally have people sitting in them for many hours at a time, and you can't usually just get up at a random time to stretch. So it makes sense it'd be comfortable.

I'm somewhat confused by that remark. Having been a user of the service for at least the last 7 years or so (http://web.archive.org/web/20040605003827/http://www.bettison.org/)

The service has been so consistently good that I signed up to the paid service some years back, which yes runs my business' web presence (the DNS part of it at least).

There are some stats are right there on the front page at http://freedns.afraid.org/ . With 880 subscribers paying between $5 and $50 a month they turn over somewhere between $50 and $500k a year.

Whilst that may not be an enormous amount of cash, the fact that it has grown organically from an essentially free service back in the day demonstrates that this is a serious outfit.

If they were no good, then I doubt they would have ended up being around for so long, or that they would be serving around 200 million queries a day.

I realise it was probably just a throwaway remark, but feel its only fair to give credit where credit is due.

The ENUM proposal is essentially asking for DNS lookup as a public service run by government or other regulatory bodies. First of all, as you said, why don't we just use names? And second, I'm not sure we want public DNS run by government or regulatory bodies. We already have community-run free DNS service such as http://freedns.afraid.org/ or commercial free service like http://www.dyndns.com/ or http://www.zoneedit.com/. If you're worried that free services would go away, a lot of domain name registries are also offering DNS service at nominal fee, and they would be less likely to vanish. Several people can share the cost of a domain.

All people need to do is to find creative uses of domain names. I think this is the hard part.

FreeDNS I've been using them for a few years. Updating the DNS info can be done in a single click for all domains. They have a few free update clients, or you can use their API to write your own client.

The installer checks for 95/98, and I believe compatibility mode doesn't work (neither does DOS installer in W2K). There are two methods to get past this:

1. Copy files from INSTALL directory, apply 3.03 patch, then apply registry patch (and no-cd):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Westwood\Red Alert Windows 95 Edition]
"Name"="Red Alert Windows 95 Edition"
"Version"=dword:00030003
"InstallPath"="INSTALL_PATH (i.e. C:\\WESTWOOD\\REDALERT\\RA95.EXE)"
"SKU"=dword:000003ed
"FolderPath"="START_MENU_PATH (i.e. C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Westwood\\Red Alert)"

2. (untested) Change HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\VersionNumber to appropriate number to fool installer.

No-CD: http://ra.afraid.org/html/downloads/fixes.html

I live in Canada and none of the ISPs that provide internet connection to the home provide native IPv6 support. Holidaying in France the other day I found that free.fr and possibly Wanadoo/Orange provide IPv6 support. An incomplete list of Internet Service Providers providing native IPv6 is available, though it could probably be updated and as more ISPs start providing native support to their customers. DSL Reports, also has a forum dedicated to IPv6.

Myself, I have started experimenting with IPv6 simply so I can understand all the issues and be able to help out other adopters. I started using Teredo on my Mac (since it supports being behind a NAT), by means of Miredo (a nice front-end for the Mac is available here), and then moved onto Aiccu. The advantage with going using Aiccu, is that I can have an IPv6 subnet for my computers at home. Also, since I wanted to make my web server available on the IPv6 addressable net, I registered its IP address with FreeDNS, since they allow for registration of AAAA records on their servers. There are certainly other 6to4 tunnels providers, such as Freenet6, but I haven't really investigate them since I already have a solution that fits my needs.

Ever heard of Dynamic DNS?

I use FreeDNS and find it be reliable and easy to use. Disclaimer: I have no financial or other interest in the site except that I find it useful.

ICANN-Accredited Registrars list is at
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.ht ml
I personally use Melbourne IT. Which I got when I bought the TLD through those yahoo jerks (cheap though: $4.95/y)
They are so smart they attached a yahoo banner at the bottom of all my pages.
Workaround was to change the name servers; now using the free service at http://freedns.afraid.org/, rock-solid and free company.
Hope this can help

For those who can read spanish: http://recurrente.afraid.org/myblog/?q=node/121

Taking all your crap wherever I go, how tired would I be. Forgetting or having no time...

I use gmail for mail, moin moin (not exactly web 2.0 and not hosted by someone else, but who cares) for all our documentation, writely for documents I share with people outside of my project. I don't want to take care of spam, synchronize ~/.evolution whenever I switch computers, configure mail server (and any other service that's not necessary... hell, I even use afraid.org so that I don't have to mess with bind. Web based solutions are great if all you care is ease of use, convenience and saving time.

Haven't tried any spreadsheets yet, but whenever (not often) I have to edit something that we've done in Excell (long time ago), OOo v.1.x (some time ago, b4 Ubuntu Breezy was out, I think) and OOo v.2.x, it's a real pain in the ass (converting to ods, taking care of permission, so that others can overwrite files, etc.). Having some hosted, based on ODF spreadsheet solution would be sweet.

if you can point your name servers elsewhere http://freedns.afraid.org/

Also FreeDNS is a great one. I use that for my domains and have never had any problems.. they support IPv6 as well.

If you just want a broker that is quick to get started with, go to btexact and sign up. For those "permanent" set ups, go to (you will get a tunnel initially, but have to save uptime enough to get a subnet and such).

So, what can it be used for? Well, at the moment I do not really use it to browse the web, but I use it for reverse dns on irc (efnet, freenode and most other ircnets have ipv6 enabled servers). In other words, I can have a range of customized hosts (very handy since many friends have shell accounts here) on irc, like @doomtech.net or cust-523452.nix.net.ru. The first one is my own domain, but the second is from afraid freedns. Afraid has a huge range of public domains, which you can add AAAA and PTR records for.
After thinking up a host, please go to spamcalc, if you don't have the brains yourself to see if your host is dns spam or not. A host like doomtech.net is not dns spam, but something like i.am.god.and.i.live.in.the.cave.with.osama.bin.lad en.info is.

Sixxs and btexact have pretty exact instructions on how to set this up on a range of operating systems. With the aiccu client from sixxs, the tunnel should work behind most NAT setups as well.

I suggest FreeDNS for all your IPv6 DNS needs. You do need to actually pay for an account (unless you want to allow anyone to create their own subdomains under your domain).

Here's a couple I found. #japan-tv and d-addicts.

I have a Dreambox and let's just say that it has some *ahem* special capabilities when it comes to satellite television. And of course, it runs Linux (currently an unpatched 2.6.9-rc1 ppc kernel). Good stuff.
It's DVR capabilities are also improving daily, thanks to an active CVS repository where Enigma, (which is like MythTV) is being developed by people all over the world.
Visit my forum Open Dreambox North America for specific info for usage in the states and canada :)

Uh, someone also registered prosco.info and set it up at FreeDNS. So if you want your very own subdomain(s) just create an account (free) and make whatever.you.want.prosco.info which can be pointed to an IP like normal DNS or forwarded to a web site.

Nice service.

I use afraid.org as my free DNS provider.
I don't host a high-volume site, just a vanity domain for the usual email and blog, but I haven't had a problem with them yet.
You can also, if you don't want to register your own domain, "piggy-back" on some of the domains they hold, and if you submit your domain to them, then there's the option to let others use your domain - for instance someone-else.mydomain.com - where you own mydomain.com
Kai

go with Freedns.afraid.org. They support dynamic domains and also give you a great deal more control than dyndns.org. I use them to host a couple of domains on my cable connection and have had nothing but good luck. Best part is, it's free (but donations are graciously accepted of course).

I know its wierd to say, but yes I think SBC can really do this. After their recent network upgrades I changed packages to a 6000/640 plan. Cost? $45/mo At a distance of ~8000 feet I could reliably do 5200/550 at about any time of day. The only drawback was a dynamic IP, but Afraid.org helped out wiht that one.

Then I went to college, and lived in the dorms. It was an honors dorm, and I wish i would have socialized MORE, but I still did an incredible job.

What happened the next summer for me? I couldn't get out of my basement soon enough! I was SO bored and lonely... i wanted to run next door and talk to the kids. I missed college life, and couldn't wait to get back to school.

So dorm life's what did it for me. Now in my 4th year of school, I have such an incredible group of friends that I can't fit everyone into my cell phone. And i'm not in a lame ass frat either.

However, looking back even further, I was MUCH more anti-social in 6th/7th grade. Was too smart for my own good sometimes. How did i start meeting those high school friends? Video games and Magic Cards! It did work for me -- and we did quickly outgrow it and start hanging out with girls around 9th grade.

So to make a long story short, you can't do this in a semester. But foster some of the skills so that this kid doesn't get lost. It definitely took time for me, but now I could honestly care less about my engineering classes and just want to go partying with my friends (bertopics.afraid.org if you want to see how out of control we get)... and I couldn't be happier.

PS: one last thing - have him do a nerd-friendly sport. Mine was swimming, and I now play water polo at school. Martial arts are also recommended, I was in the ju-jitsu club for quite a while too. Don't let that stuff get to his head though.

Anybody out there who can type at 128 kbps?

Yes, but not without a good deal of ...buffering... going on.

It's way easier to just say hi and a few quick things than calling -- sometimes it's just to leave a quick message even if i'm away.

I also got a digital camera for xmas and have lots of pictures up too... haha they'll love all the beerse i hold!

At home, I've got normal consumer-grade (Time Warner; somewhere around 3mbps/384kbps, $50) cable. The service is dead-solid reliable, and the IP address has never changed.

Oh, sure - it *might*. But dynamic DNS services are easy to set up, and free.

And if you insist on running BIND yourself, there's ways of doing that, too, without bothering your registrar every time you hop IPs or costing you a cent.

Once you've got the DNS issues resolved, the rest (SMTP, HTTP, whatever) is cake.

(If this all seems too "hard" or "unreliable" or "hackish," please feel free to contribute $50/mo to your existing ISP for a static address. Thank you.)

You can also use FreeDNS. It is public shared DNS hosting, so you have to allow other people to have subdomains, but so what? Just make sure you obtain all the important ones (www, mail, ftp, irc) immediately. I've been using FreeDNS for a few of my domains and it is great.

Maybe it's that it's too late and I'm not thinking very well.

I totally agree with your "shareware" comment, though. I pay $30/year for Salon.com, $25/year for LiveJournal, $2/month for afraid.org FreeDNS, $9/month for SuicideGirls.com (so sue me, punk girls are hot)... anyway, I don't have to pay for most of these things to get the functionality I want, but I pay anyway because I want to support these particular content providers especially, and also the "free" Internet in general.

DynDNS
HammerNode
WhyI
No-IP
FreeDNS
CJB.net
DDT
DDNS
Continuum
dnsQ
dyn.ee
dyndsl

Just a few... There are lots more, both free and not.