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About to become awful: Free Netgear Dynamic DNS
When I first got my RAX200 it was hard to believe it was limited to only having the choice of three DDNS providers, but at least the built-in "NETGEAR" option through NO-IP was free. A year later and ...
Thought about flashing the router with DD-WRT but I'm now using DuckDNS kept updated via a Raspberry Pi i'm already using for Home Assistant.
Seems you can also run the update client on an esp32 board available for a couple of dollars. If your router has a usb socket you're not using you can even power it from there. A bit messy thanks to penny-pinching from Netgear but needs must......
That's funny, I did the exact same thing immediately after posting this topic (getting DuckDNS running on a raspberry pi behind my router). I have it updating every five minutes as per the default DuckDNS install instructions... In looking at the generated log file, I'm noticing that I'm getting 502 Bad Gateway errors on the refresh intermittently, but often (maybe 50% of the time)... Are you seeing that too?
Flashing with DD-WRT isn't an option, right? I would totally do that... Thought that wasn't supported on this chipset, but haven't been keeping up with DD-WRT.
But back on topic, it's ridiculous that this is yet another feature that this $600 router doesn't have. To support something like DuckDNS all it needs to be able to do is hit a simple user specified URL every X minutes. And as far as I know, the rest of the firmware is still terrible (I'm running what I assume is ancient V1.0.1.12_1.0.41 still because it's the only one I know of where I can get it to not drop the LAN speed to 50% of my gigabit connection). Very disastisfied with netgear...
I had been running Kong's build of dd-wrt for years, until I moved and able to get 1Gb service and needed the acceleration that the stock fw afforded. Which is when I realized that netgear didn't support duckdns and I thought, well atleast Netgear has a free ddns. A month later I get the email, smdh.
I've had a duckdns account running in homeassistant and will use it until I figure out what I'm going to do long term.
JackdawFool wrote:I have it updating every five minutes as per the default DuckDNS install instructions... In looking at the generated log file, I'm noticing that I'm getting 502 Bad Gateway errors on the refresh intermittently, but often (maybe 50% of the time)... Are you seeing that too?
Yes, it seems to be rate limiting or lacking enough server resources but either way it still works okay overall considering its widespread use by malware authors due to it being completely free to use.