VPN on Orbi without DDNS

I was looking over some VPN searches the other day. From what I gather, DDNS is needed on Orbi for VPN to work. Others mentioned that this was kind of odd. 

You might contact NG support to see what there official stance is on this.

Blanca_O 

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Netgear-Orbi-RBK50-DDNS-issue/m-p/1649026#M42942 

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mayhemxtc wrote:

 I have an RBR20 system, according to its web page: a router & 2 sattelites.

 

I saw a previous post with the same title that says it "should be no problem" to set up the vpn without setting up the ddns stuff, which is exactly what I want do, as there is no built in option for my provider (dnsexit - and no, I dont want to have to change providers).

However, when I try to enable the vpn, & click apply, I cant get past the popup telling me to enable ddns.

Can anyone help/advise p!se ?

 

Thanks

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I think maybe this is because your Orbi assumes that, with your WAN IP address being assigned by DHCP by the ISP, your VPN can't work. The most straighforward way to address this would be to get a reserved/static WAN IP from your ISP, which probably costs extra, if they offer it. If they don't offer it, or you don't want to pay, there may not be a good way to make it work. But you can probably make it work anyway, just with lower reliability. If you can determine your WAN IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway, you could probably manually enter them into the Orbi as a static IP address, and the Orbi should allow you to use the VPN feature without enabling the DDNS feature.

The problem here is you run the risk of your WAN IP lease expiring and your ISP assigning your connection a new WAN IP address. Because you will have disabled DHCP, your manually-configured WAN IP won't match your ISP's IP configuration, and you won't be able to use the internet at all from home, and your VPN won't work while you're away, either. You'll have to stay on top of things and check regularly, and update the WAN IP settings as necessary. It'll be free, and will probably work most of the time, but it really depends on your ISP, how often it changes WAN IP leases, and your tolerance for outages due to mismatched configurations. And, I suppose, your ability to remember that, during an outage, one of your early troubleshooting steps will have to be to re-enable WAN DHCP, get a new lease, then transcribe that new info back into the static IP settings field.