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Mag748
Initiate
Oct 09, 2019

RBR50 DDNS using https://www.duckdns.org/

Hello,   I am having issues with the VPN. How can I use https://www.duckdns.org/ as the DDNS service? I do not want to use Netgear's service.   Thanks, Marcus
Mag748's avatar
Mag748
Initiate
Oct 09, 2019

 

Dear CrimpOn,
 
 
 
 
 
 
Do you actually use the No-IP service? If so, have you received a notification that you must confirm that you are using your hostname every 30 days? Don't want to be bothered? Upgrade, and save $5! woohoo! So happy, yay. Are you F*cking kidding me. 
 
So, I'm would like Netgear to have their engineers add what ever custom code is required (yes, I know, not standard) to talk to the servers at https://www.duckdns.org/. It'll be a fun project for them I'm sure.
 
I'm sure many customers would be happy.
 
 
 
 Anyway, I know this will not happen, and I've already decided I'm returning this Orbi system. The build in VPN was one of the features that I was really looking forward to, but this is just BS.
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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 09, 2019

I used No-IP's "free" host name for testing.  Once I decided to implement VPN on several Orbi systems, I paid them.

 

I think we agree that Netgear is not likely to add more DDNS providers.  I have not done extensive research, so I have no idea that should they decide to add more providers, duckdns.org would be one they would pick.

 

I don't know what percentage of Orbi customers implement DDNS/VPN.  My guess is very few.

  • TheBigJC's avatar
    TheBigJC
    Aspirant
    Dec 02, 2019

    It woud be fantastic if we were able to have the option to create our own provider in this case. There are several, and I use Cloudflare. It's very unfortunate we are limited. I still can't figure out how to have the VPN use another hostname versus the one configured in DynDNS.