Hover and Dynamic DNS

Stan

I've just switched domain registrars and nameservers from GoDaddy to Hover, based in part on the listing of Hover in the "Service Type" drop down list in the Dynamic DNS Service of pfSense. I created an A record at Hover and tried to set up DDNS with them. It didn't work. I just finished a chat with Hover. They say that they don't support DDNS. What am I missing?

Gertjan

@stan said in Hover and Dynamic DNS:

They say that they don't support DDNS. What am I missing?

Simple.
You switched registrars, but forgot the add essential criteria to the 'need to have' list.
Like :

Does this registrar supports DDNS ?
      Does the supported DDNS also have pfSense support ?
           Ok, new registrars is Ok
      Else 
           Bail out.
Else
      Bail out

@stan said in Hover and Dynamic DNS:

tried to set up DDNS with them

You do this using their support/documentation/FAQs/manuals.

Or : Plan Z : don't use any external DDNS any more : be your own ! You need a VPS, install an OS, install 'bind' - use this VPS as your domain name zone master - pick another one as the salve(there are many free choices) - do some learning. Set things up. Done.

firegood

Hello,

I also have a domain name hosted with hover that I would like to setup my pfsense instance to manage a DNS record with my ISP's dynamically assigned IP address.

I found this thread on the top hit on google. I am very confused by the reply from Gerjan, why does the option exist in the drop down of the Dynamic DNS section of pfsense if it dosent work?

I found this PR on github where it looks like the functionality was added into pfsense
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/3549

Anyone know anything about this?

Gertjan

@firegood said in Hover and Dynamic DNS:

I also have a domain name hosted with hover that I would like to setup my pfsense instance to manage a DNS record with my ISP's dynamically assigned IP address.

Did you saw :

@Stan said in Hover and Dynamic DNS:

They say that they don't support DDNS.

As I understand it 'They' is Hover !
So setting up a functionality that isn't supported by the registrar shouldn't need to confuse you.

On the other hand :
I also saw this :

so yeah, I also tend to believe that the Hover mentioned in the pull down list is the Hover, your registrar. Which could mean : they say they don't support it - support you (like : helping people using is ) but they do have the functionality. It could be like using Microsoft Windows : they do not support you, Microsoft will probably tell you to contact your PC builder.

Did you saw / read the Hover documentation ?

Stan

In my chat with Hover support, they said that they don't support DDNS, meaning that they don't offer the functionality. That was almost two years ago, though.

Gertjan

@Stan

Yeah : some reading from here hover dyndns make me think they don't support "DynDNS" anymore ( ? ), as they added 2FA( ?? )

I can't be sure, of course, I'm not a client of Hover.