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SXR80 DDNS with No-IP
Hello, I'm trying to setup my new SXR80 Orbi router to work with DDNS using my existing No-IP.com account. I only need to fill in 3 fields: hostname, user, and password. I don't know what the hostna...
To follow up on this here is what's working for me.
There is no need to config DDNS in the router. Do not select the checkbox to us a DDNS service under the Advanced tab-->Advanced setup-->Dynamic DNS. Don't use it at all.
On the machine running the MAMP server
- do not use the Dynamic DNS service. Also, do not set any of the individual hosts to use DDNS.
- I am running no-ip's DUC which updates the IP address to all my hosts.
I used to have to access websites on my MAMP server from my desktop by using a DDNS hostname setup on no-ip. Though the host machine was on my local network it was a different IP address and afaik that was the only way to access it. The request for a website would go out, find no-ip, and then get routed back to the MAMP server. That worked well for several years. For some reason that stopped working and it was probably due to a software update.
I have installed MAMP's related app NAMO on the MAMP server. This lets me access all hosts from any machine on my local network including phones and tablets.
This has been working and it's a solution I'm happy with. So far.
duanemitchell wrote:
I only need to fill in 3 fields: hostname, user, and password. I don't know what the hostname is?
The hostname here is the hostname plus the domain name as configured with your No-IP account.
duanemitchell wrote:
I have 9 hosts configured in No-IP. These are then routed to a machine on my local network. Is it one of those? Do I do this 9 times? Once for each of the hosts? Can you give me an example of what this might be?
Curious what DDNS updater you used before the SRX80. Most routers allow the DDNS configuration for a single host only.
If you need to update more hosts, and you have a machine serving these on your network anyway, I'd suggest to install a DDNS update client like No-IP's Dynamic DNS Update Client (DUC), e.g. DUC Linux (note popular distros have it ready to install from thier repo, e..g by apt-get, DUC Windows, DUC for Mac.
Regards,
-Kurt
FYI, in case you aren't familiar with a MAMP setup here's some info. It's the same as XAMP on Windows. Anyway, I've got one machine that is always on that clients can go to and see the work I'm doing. That machine has MAMP installed and running. It's a full webserver running Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It has other services as well. A URL that I might give to a client would look like this: http://xyz.ddns.net:8888. The xyz.ddns.net part comes from no ip. The 8888 part comes from MAMP. That's the port it uses for web services. Not port 80. I can have up 25 different hosts in no-ip.com and I can have that many in MAMP. Once the URL is routed to the correct machine by the router MAMP directs it to the correct website.
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