I am trying to setup synology external access with my ORBI. I was able to quickly setup port forwards using UPnP and all the port seems to be connecting... except port 80. And I think i'm unable to get a DDNS certificate because of this. Does anyone have the same problem?

You are ahead of me. I thought "Port Forwarding" would be set up on the Advanced Setup Menu "Port Forwarding", not UPnP.Seems like a pretty straight forward thing to do. Specify that external port 80 goes to port 80 on a particular IP address. I doubt that DDNS has anything to do with this. I was confused because I thought I was setting up DDNS with "myname", and then found that the actual DDNS name was "myname.mynetgear.com".

I was advised by Synology service tech to not use UPnP as it is unstable and instead to setup port forwarding rules manually.... followed the steps in this article:https://kb.netgear.com/31069/How-do-I-configure-port-forwarding-on-my-Orbi-system I added 3 custom service rules. 1)l ports 5000-5001 2) ports 80, 443 3) ports 9025-9040, 5002, 5004. I also rebooted the Orbi after adding these changes. When I check with a port checker tool, all of them are closed... What can I be missing?

Can you take a screen shot of the port forwarding page?(I do not think "rebooting" is necessary.)

Here is the screen shot of the Port Forwarding page....

This certaily looks correct to me. In all this, I forgot to ask what the Orbi is connected to. Obviously, the Orbi is in "router" mode. If it is connected to another router rather than directly to the internet modem, port forwarding is not going to work. One quick test is to do a "trace route" to some external IP adddress, such as Google DNS (8.8.8.8) from any machine on your LAN. The first "hop" should be 192.168.1.1 (the Orbi gateway).The second "hop" should be a public IP address, i.e. not one that starts with 192.168 or 10.0

Orbi Doesn't Port Forward 80 to Synology

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 04, 2020
You are ahead of me. I thought "Port Forwarding" would be set up on the Advanced Setup Menu "Port Forwarding", not UPnP.
Seems like a pretty straight forward thing to do. Specify that external port 80 goes to port 80 on a particular IP address.

I doubt that DDNS has anything to do with this. I was confused because I thought I was setting up DDNS with "myname", and then found that the actual DDNS name was "myname.mynetgear.com".
- AC360
  Aspirant
  Jan 08, 2020
  I was advised by Synology service tech to not use UPnP as it is unstable and instead to setup port forwarding rules manually.... followed the steps in this article:
  https://kb.netgear.com/31069/How-do-I-configure-port-forwarding-on-my-Orbi-system
  
  I added 3 custom service rules. 1)l ports 5000-5001 2) ports 80, 443 3) ports 9025-9040, 5002, 5004.
  
  I also rebooted the Orbi after adding these changes.
  
  When I check with a port checker tool, all of them are closed...
  
  What can I be missing?
  - CrimpOn
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 08, 2020
    Can you take a screen shot of the port forwarding page?
    
    (I do not think "rebooting" is necessary.)

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Orbi Doesn't Port Forward 80 to Synology