Dynamic DNS

In order to update dns registations when the local IP address changes, a Dynamic DNS service provider can be used. Our os-ddclient plugin offers support for various services using the ddclient software.

Prerequisites

Before installing and using this plugin, make sure to register an account with one of the supported services.

Installation

Installation of this plugin is rather easy, go to System ‣ Firmware ‣ Plugins and search for os-ddclient, use the [+] button to install it.

Next go to Services ‣ Dynamic DNS ‣ Settings to configure one or more Dynamic DNS services.

General settings

The general settings tab offers access to general options used by all configured dynamic dns services on this firewall. By default the service is enabled after installation,

Option	Description
Enable	Enable the client
Interval	The number of seconds address changes will be queried
Backend	Select the backend to use, either “ddclient” or “native”

Note

With ddlient developments sunsetting [*] we decided to offer an alternative written in Python. Selecting the native backend replaces the employed implementation. If your service is supported, we do advice to try out the new native backend which also offers support for custom HTTP requests.

Accounts

In the primary tab you can register one or more dynamic dns providers which will be used to update dns registrations using an api call over http(s) to the selected service.

Note

The local IP address used for this firewall will be obtained by querying one of the selected providers. Since ddclient currently doesn’t support dual stack (IPv4+IPv6) opertion, make sure to either select an IPv4 or IPV6 address provider in the settings tab.

Option	Description
Enable	Enable this rule (allows turning entries off without removing them).
Service	The provider of your Dynamic DNS Service.
resourceId	A pointer to the service to be updated, currently only relevant for Azure
Username	Login or user name to use, could be empty for token based authentication
Password	Password or security token to use
Hostname	Enter the fully qualified domain names to update via the selected service. For example: myhost.dyndns.org
Check ip method	Service to query the current IP address
Check ip timeout	How long to wait before the checkip process times out
Force SSL	Choose to use HTTP or HTTPS, but only for selected services. Most services only support HTTPS nowadays.
Interface to monitor	Interface to collect an address from when choosing “Interface” as check ip method, or source interface used to connect to the check ip service
Description	A description to easily identify this rule in the overview.

Provider-specific configuration

Cloudflare

For accounts with Cloudflare as provider, there is an additional option Zone, which should be set as the name of the zone containing the host to be updated, not its zone ID.

Cloudflare accepts authorization with the global token with the options

Option	Value
Username	The email of the Cloudflare account.
Password	Global API Key.

Using an API token is recommended for security reasons, with Permissions Zone ‣ DNS ‣ Edit and Zone Resources Include ‣ Specific zone ‣ zone with the host, and the account options

Option	Value
Username	token
Password	API token.