Dynamic DNS - Public IP gets set to a local address
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I have used pfSense, Dynamic DNS and easyDNS successfully for several years. However, twice in the last 3 months I have found that my public domain IP address has become set to a local network IP address (eg. 192.168.0.47). While it might be coincidence it seems the local address corresponds to the DHCP allocated address of the Linux workstation I mainly use. I note that the pfSense Dashboard Dynamic DNS Status widget displays the IP address allocated by my ISP and is oblivious to the corruption.
Setting my domain's public IP address in this way obviously takes me 'off air'. I am completely lost for any kind of logical explanation as to how this can happen beyond a bug in Dynamic DNS. I assume easyDNS updates are password protected so the only process that knows the password is Dynamic DNS. However, network computing being what it is I may be victim of a security compromise.
Has anyone else experienced this problem. It occurs infrequently but there has to be an explanation! Its also a pain in the rear!! Any help gratefully received.
Mike
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@miken58b: With help from easyDNS I eventually tracked the problem down to having set up ez-ipupdate on my workstation some years ago and forgetting all about it. Only when I changed my local network DHCP service from Windows to pfSense did the issue surface. For whatever reason pfSense DHCP seems to sometimes allocate a new IP address to my Linux workstation when the lease is renewed and this triggered an update to easyDNS which was erroneous.
So a catalog of self-inflicted errors and I need to better understand why pfSense DHCP isn't allocating the same IP address consistently to the same client.
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@miken58b said in Dynamic DNS - Public IP gets set to a local address:
So a catalog of self-inflicted errors and I need to better understand why pfSense DHCP isn't allocating the same IP address consistently to the same client.
Is the device turned off for a period of time? If off for longer than the lease time, there is no guarantee it will get the same address again. If powered up within the lease time, it should get the same address.
