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Netgear DDNS server is not reachable
I've had two R7000 routers (east & west coasts) for 4 years and the Netgear DDNS (xxxx.mynetgear.com) for both has always worked. However, neither DDNS is working today. On my local R7000 here o...
Fellow R7000 sufferers - Is it only me or has anyone else noticed that the DDNS is not working?
It seems to me that the Netgear DDNS server has been unreachable for at least 24 hours.
I solved it. Even though I don't know why Netgear's DDNS server stopped propagating both my R7000 Host Names to DNS servers, I've solved the problem by resetting both my Netgear DDNS accounts under Advanced/Advanced Setup/Dynamic DNS on both my R7000 routers and then re-registering them. After that, both my R7000 Host Names were propagated to DNS servers as they should be and both my R7000 routers are now reachable over the Internet by Host Name again. In order to do this Reset to my unattended, remotely-located R7000, I had to initially reach it by IP address instead of by Host Name.