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(GET, POST, or HTTP basic auth with the record name as the user), one request for IPv4 and one for IPv6, and txt= in place of myip= for a TXT record first created in the panel; the dynamic service is included free with a dns.he.net account; the update URL changes the address of an A or AAAA record, or the value of a TXT record, that already exists, and its interface term would be dyndns, which the vocabulary lacks, so interface carries unknown","tooling":"the web panel for zone and record management; the dyndns URL for dynamic A, AAAA and TXT records; no SDK and no documented REST API","chaining":"reverse DNS and secondary zones, which the other free providers in this set do not do as readily","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the service is in open beta and is limited to IPv6 certification or tunnelbroker account holders, colocation customers and transit customers; no record count and no query cap is 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network is restricted)' in its place","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the service page was read and states the eligibility gate and the dyndns syntax.","evidence":[{"url":"probe:https://dns.he.net/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"200, 16,458 bytes, the service page and login portal; the service answers and requires an account"},{"url":"https://dns.he.net/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'The Open Beta has been expanded and now includes our IPv6 certification or tunnelbroker account holders, Colocation customers and those with Transit services'; 'Multiple domains per account.'; the dyndns update syntax with separate ipv4 and ipv6 values and a txt= variant for Let's Encrypt DNS-01, where the dynamic record must be created in the panel first"},{"url":"https://tunnelbroker.net/register.php","date":"2026-10-30","proved":"the shared Hurricane Electric registration form marks the phone number as required, beside the account name, e-mail, names, country and full postal 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