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Updating multiple hosts with no-ip
Hello all, Juste purchase the Orbi AX6000. I have setup the dynamic DNS with no-ip and it works fine. The problem is that you can only add 1 host to update and i have more than 1. Is there a way aro...
jazzboypro wrote:
Juste purchase the Orbi AX6000. I have setup the dynamic DNS with no-ip and it works fine. The problem is that you can only add 1 host to update and i have more than 1. Is there a way around that ?
There may be some confusion about Dynamic DNS. When a host has been created using one of the three DDNS services that Netgear supports (Netgear, www.no-ip.com,www.dyn.com) Netgear's routers have software that periodically checks the public IP address and updates the DDNS entry. This saves the customer from having to manually log into the DDNS service and update the entries. Every DDNS service is slightly different in the way that they allow automatic updating, and Netgear supports only those three.
If you have other hosts using DDNS, it is up to those hosts to update the DDNS service when the public IP changes.
Perhaps it would help if you identify what these other DDNS hosts are (in general terms). The primary way to use DDNS is to have the router forward ports to specific devices on the local LAN. If, for example, there are serveral services that need to be open to the internet (web server, FTP server, media server, security camera system) all of them would have the same DDNS (the router) and traffic would get to them because of the port forwarding mechanism.