nsupdate.info VS RANCID

I mainly use FortiDDNS of the FortiGate firewalls, else I use https://nsupdate.info with any standard DynDNS v1 or v2 compatible client, either built-in in routers or Linux/Windows clients, these always check if IP has change and never abuse nsupdate with unnecessary traffic so it's never a problem. Source: almost 2 years ago

Very nice, but I still can't use ddclient because I'm using nsupdate.info with a google-oauth2 login... Source: about 2 years ago

I know how to setup basic network functionality (OPNsense, OpenWRT, OpenVPN, Dynamic DNS (nsupdate.info) and I'd imagine to create a topology like this: https://i.imgur.com/Q1NkBft.png Except fiddling around with the network mask and manage to create an OpenVPN on an existing network range (192.168.0.0/24 entire range, 192.168.0.200-207 for OpenVPN) But I'd like to know if you guys have better ideas to create... Source: over 2 years ago

Switched to nsupdate.info and "host appears to be working". Source: over 2 years ago

I am using nsupdate.info, which is supported out of the box, as my dynamic dns service provider. When I set DDNS up through LuCi, I select nsupdate.info in the drop-down list, then I am presented with the options below. Source: almost 3 years ago

A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago

Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago

Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: about 2 years ago