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Setting up openDNS with noIP.com
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Setting up openDNS with noIP.com
I'm setting up the MK83 to use OpenDNS. what I've done so far.
I changed the DNS numbers on the router to the OpenDNS numbers.
Registered with OpenDNS and added my network with the IP detected by OpenDNS.
I went to the router settings / Advanced set up / Dynamic DNS and selected use Dynamic DNS service. ater creating an account with NoIP.com and entered my login info. clicked status and got a good response. (<userename.****.net> updated successfully at 12:45AM,08/02/2021) user name and *** just in case... LOL
and that is how far I got.... what I'm I supposed to do after ? so that OpenDNS gets my new IP if and when it changes. or is that alll I need. to do?
So noIP.com had me change my IP in my noIP account to 1.1.1.1 and restart my router. to verify that the IP would get updated. well. it didn't. what am I missing?
Thanks.
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Re: Setting up openDNS with noIP.com
Please post bout this here in the Nighthawk MESH forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Mesh-System/bd-p/en-home-nighthawk-mesh-system
Thank you.
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Re: Setting up openDNS with noIP.com
> Registered with OpenDNS and added my network with the IP [address]
> detected by OpenDNS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address
That's a start. I have a real domain, so I don't do this stuff, so I
know nothing, but, as I read the instructions, there's more to be done:
https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227987787
6. Check the box to "Enable dynamic IP update." Be sure to apply
your settings at the bottom of the page.
As I understand ("understand") this stuff...
DDNS is independent of OpenDNS. Your NoIP DDNS stuff should work
regardless of whether you use OpenDNS. DDNS lets you reference your
router's public (WAN/Internet) interface by DNS name, even when its
underlying IP address changes. For that to work, you need to keep your
DDNS provider (NoIP) informed when your router's public (WAN/Internet)
IP address changes. That updating job is done by an updater which is
built into the router firmware. (It's not hard for the router to notice
when its own WAN/Internet IP address changes.)
As you might guess from the fact that OpenDNS asks for your
(router's WAN/Internet) public IP address, OpenDNS associates your
custom settings with that IP address. If that IP address changes, then
your router will lose its association with those OpenDNS custom
settings.
To keep your OpenDNS custom settings associated with your _changing_
public IP address, you need to keep OpenDNS informed of such address
changes. The NoIP DDNS updater in your router firmware doesn't do that
job; it doesn't tell OpenDNS anything.
https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227987787 (again)
7. Learn how to keep your address updated. If you don't keep the
IP [address] updated, your preferences will not be applied, and
your statistics will not be collected - although you will still
be using OpenDNS.
8. Download, install and run the Dynamic IP Updater client on a
computer that is powered on 24/7, or started up daily and does
not leave your home network.
From that, I gather that you can get an _OpenDNS_ updater which
_will_ do that job. But it won't be running on your router.
But what do I know?
> [...] my question is more of the generic kind. [...]
Perfectly reasonable. Advice to post in a desert is about as helpful
as an annoying animated icon.
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