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disgustipated
Tutor
Jun 07, 2019
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...
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MrSpocksSon
Novice
Nov 29, 2019

I agree that this should not be tied to any particular Dynamic DNS service. I also use a dynamic DNS service managed by my DNS Registrar so that I can use my own domain and not the limited selection provided by the DynDNS service. I hope this gets fixed in a future firmware release. Maybe they can offer a "custom" option in the Dynamic DNS page that will not try to call out to any service and still allow their OpenVPN scripts to generate the proper OpenVPN profiles.

 

Thanks SungamR, I followed your workaround and was able to create an OpenVPN profile with my preferred domain and successfully disabled the DynDNS service in the router after everything was set up. The VPN Service stayed up even after applying this configuration.