Openwrt opendns updater

Log in to your router over SSH: ssh root Last edited by OFelix on 22 Oct , I had to change the cron entry to get it to run every 10min. Hi shdashley, I'm not a certified expert :- but the entry you suggest doesn't seem to make any sense. Its working for me fine. I have Battled for a while with ddns, as this had been working one on Anyhow thanks. Last edited by shdashley on 22 Oct , Thanks :- The command I posted would only run the command at 10 minutes past each hour.

I will update the original post with the correct command as supplied by you. Other editors as vi needs to be installed separately. Alternatively you can use UCI command line interface. Example input:. Above options can also be set via LuCI. The options are only shown if wget or curl package is installed! If your WAN interface has the IP you want to propagate, this approach has the advantage of not depending on external services or even a working DNS resolution.

Normally no user actions are required because ddns-scripts starts when hotplug ifup event happens. This will happen automatically at system startup when the named interface comes up. Event ifup also happens when a dialup network comes up. If different an update request is sent to DDNS provider. To stop a desired process press the Terminate or Kill button. The process should remove from the list. Look for service ddns and press the button for the desired action.

From console command line you could create an ifup hotplug event for the desired network interface. Keep in mind that also other service processes i. To guarantee that your configurations only run once not looking for an interface event you need to disable ddns service.

Logfiles are automatically truncated to a settable number of lines default lines. From console you need to edit the config file:. In case your device has enough built in memory or if you are using Extroot, you might want to store the ddns logs persistently.

To debug what's going on, you can run ddns-scripts in verbose mode. Following verbose level are defined:. You will get full description of errors and the output of programs like wget, nslookup etc.

Packages wget or curl not installed to support secure communication. Remember to read how to configure a custom service. At provider specific settings, only parameters that needs to be changed are described.

The relevant parameters to use together with a custom settings are:. If you find a at a provider description below, please support the ddns-scripts maintainer to test and update this page. Please post a support request if something is not working as described or needs to be updated. If you have your own domain and are running bind as your primary DNS server, you can use the ddns-scripts-nsupdate package to update bind.

There are two parts:. This will generate the key and shared secret that will be used to update DNS. You should see output similar to the following:. You should see no errors, and the In the bottom section, Services, you will see two example configurations: one for IPv4 and one for IPv6.

How it works I believe that most public DNS servers log lookups whether they publicly declare or say nothing about. Use a password without special characters. You can compensate the loss of password strength by increasing length. Using the same login credentials, signin at dashboard. Categories software web network hardware programming.

Thank you for the detailed answer fantom-x - I'll give that a try! Seeing your post 2 years after the facts ;-. Got it working using settings as on screenshots below.

Hope it can be of any use to someone Hi pajotsetrapper , that's great, thanks! Anyone have any experience with a similar setup?