notes on porkbun dyndns

pointing_domain_home.md

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+Okay, so I have my first domain ever (contrapeso.xyz). How cool is that?
+
+I discovered I can spin as many subdomains as I want, which I find very 
+cool. I was thinking that it would be pretty neat to have one of them
+pointing to my home network so I can access my machines from out of home.
+
+I already kind of set the same thing with duckdns, but the domain you get
+is an ugly duckdns subdomain, and I want to use mine.
+
+So, how can I use mine?
+
+Apparently, the guys at porkbun have a dynamic dns service. To use it, 
+I need to set up a python script as a cronjob in a machine in my local
+network.
+
+The script and config template can be found in: https://github.com/porkbundomains/porkbun-dynamic-dns-python
+To get the API keys needed for auth, go to: https://porkbun.com/account/api
+
+So I have set up a folder in my home folder called "porkbun-dynamic-dns" 
+and placed there the python script and the config file. It creates a DNS
+record for the subdomain home.contrapeso.xyz to our local network IP 
+address. I'm going to setup a cronjob to run it periodically and leave it 
+running.