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disgustipated
Jun 07, 2019Tutor
Status:
New Idea
vpn should not be tied to requiring a dynamic dns service bug
firmware V1.0.4.28 On the phone with support troubleshooting vpn connection timeout from multiple locations, has not worked before. I have my own website and i have an A record through 1and1 pointin...
ranger_m
Oct 26, 2019Novice
Just to pile on, here's another case where tying VPN service to dynamic DNS being set up on the router doesn't make sense: I actually do use dynamic DNS, but my preferred DDNS provider isn't supported by my router's firmware. This is probably not uncommon: even recent NightHawk firmware only supports three DDNS providers, so anyone using something other than Netgear, No-IP, or Dyn will fall into this category. Instead of setting up a DDNS client on my router, I use a update script that runs on my home fileserver to keep DDNS up to date. However, since I haven't set up a DDNS client on the router itself, it refuses to let me start a VPN server....even though I clearly have a reliable DNS record.