Assign a free, temporary DNS for sharing the terminal outside of the current network

[thedrow]

There are many, many services which supply free DNS and provide an API to register them.
We should evaluate those and pick a few that are safe to use and preferably open sourced with a permissive license.
This will allow us to share the terminal outside of the current network we're on.

[jay2u]

Isn't that a bit out of the scope of the app? You would think that would be more in local network and router / port mapping territory. If you want to remain OS agnostic it would be hard to deal with external port mappings and NAT etc.

[thedrow]

It'd be really nice to have this built in. I think that dealing with external port mappings and NAT is out of scope for this project but automating the DNS part leaves one less thing the users need to take care of.
You can just set up a DNS for the IP and expose the port as it is.

[thedrow]

I think I found something that might work out of the box: https://github.com/pagekite/libpagekite
It requires interpolating with C though. What do you think?

[yudai]

I'm afraid that your suggestion is out of the scope of gotty. I want to keep gotty simple and small.
DNS registration and port mapping are provided by other tools like ngrok, so writing a small script is a better way.

[thedrow]

Ok, thanks.

[yudai]

@thedrow Thank you for your feedback and understanding. I appreciate.