Help With Dynamic DNS?

[XrayDoc88]

My questions will probably seem out of place for a pfSense forum, but here goes!

I have my domain registered with GoDaddy. In pfSense I was able to setup dynamic DNS successfully using the GoDaddy drop down option. It works great. I obtained my "API Key" and "API Secret" from GoDaddy and entered my host name, done!

Now I'd like to do the same thing on a hardware router that doesn't have a GoDaddy drop down menu, but does have a "custom" option. I've entered the same API Key and API Secret. I've entered the host name. But the custom page also has "Dynamic DNS Server" and "Request" fields to populate. I don't know what these might be. I assumed they would be specific to GoDaddy so I contacted them. No help. Could these two fields be specific to pfSense? Were they filled in automatically in pfSense when I chose the GoDaddy drop down menu in my pfSense router?

Does anyone know what I should enter in these two fields to make Dynamic DNS work, like it already works in pfSense?

Thanks!

[Gertjan]

@xraydoc88
Have a look at the documentation
( remember : "open source" )

Look here : https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/dyndns.class after line 1195.

Why it is done like this ?
Because the Godaddy API told us to so : see https://developer.godaddy.com/doc/endpoint/domains#/v1/recordReplaceTypeName

So https://developer.godaddy.com/doc/endpoint/domains#/v1/recordReplaceTypeName

pfSense 'knows' about how to handle DoDaddy's DynDNS because some one has read the API, and wrote some PHP script to deal with it.

@xraydoc88 said in Help With Dynamic DNS?:

they would be specific to GoDaddy so I contacted them

By calling ? Don't.

"Dynamic DNS Server" is probably the "https://api.godaddy.com"
The request, is something like "/v1/"your-domain"/"type"/"host name".
type is A or AAAA
host name is your host name.
Then the entire http header is constructed - your IS is there also.
And a json structure is added as the body, with a minimal IP and TTL data.

If this http request returns "200" then you know it succeeded, just like a real web browser.

And yeah, every DynDNS supplier can do this 'its own way'.
That's why the pfSense /etc/inc/dyndns.class exists.

[XrayDoc88]

@gertjan
I appreciate your response and willingness to help. Unfortunately, I'm not a coder. I looked at both of your URL links. They are above my pay grade. I do remember that when I got dynamic DNS working in pfSense, I created an "A" type with the help of a friend. I'm not knowledgeable enough to write my own script or how to make the script execute. I'm not even sure if "host name" means "xxx" or "xxx.domain".

I guess I was hoping that I could copy and paste a script into the "request" field and just change my details. Likewise, copy and paste the appropriate "dynamic DNS server".