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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.
I'm actually accessing 3 devices that are on my LAN. The port forwarding rules works. Each device has a host defined with no-ip. I can managed the hosts and manually update the IP adress thru the no-ip website. What i wanted is for the router to update the 3 hosts and not just 1
jazzboypro wrote:
I'm actually accessing 3 devices that are on my LAN. The port forwarding rules works. Each device has a host defined with no-ip. I can managed the hosts and manually update the IP adress thru the no-ip website. What i wanted is for the router to update the 3 hosts and not just 1
The router has no feature to update additional DDNS entries. I think you have two choices:
- Use a single DDNS name and realize that the application port will direct connections to the correct device.
- Look for software to run on each server to update no-ip.
no-ip.com offers a service (i.e. costs money) that checks every five minutes and will notify you when a server is not reachable using the DDNS entry. That will alert you to log into no-ip.com and update the entry.
Ping Plotter has a feature to do the same thing: https://www.pingplotter.com/manual/dynamic_dns.html
I would pick option #1.
Installing a DDNS client on each device is not possible as they are not computers. For such an expensive router solution the DDNS feature is badly implemented. Having multiple host is not a rarity these days.
I have an open ticket with no-ip. The reason i was looking at the router to do the job is because the no-ip DUC client is not working on my computer. I cant configure the client with the hosts i need to update.
The no-ip DUC client appears to be exactly what you want. At the bottom of the page:
"The installation will complete and the application will ask for your account information. After your username and password have been authenticated you will be shown a list of hostnames. Select the hostnames that you would like updated to the IP address of your computer."
https://www.noip.com/download?page=win