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    Howto setup freedns.afraid.org dynamic dns in pfsense.org?

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      tempy
      last edited by

      Hi there.

      I have freedns.afraid.org dynamic dns service working in my dd-wrt that it's being used as an AP and switch.

      I'm trying to migrate all my services to the my pfsense gateway. There's a lot of good howto's, tutorials, faqs and documentation in the pfsense.org website and others but I couldn't find a good/consistant one about the freedns.afraid.org service setup in pfsense.

      Can someone give me a step by step help? I already tried to setup but it's not updating correctly. Maybe I'm missing some parameters.

      Thanks in advance.

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        XIII
        last edited by

        search the forum its been answered, anyway heres an answer:
        go here http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ and then copy the direct url for the domain you want, paste that url anywhere, then copy everything after the ? and before the ==, this is your key in freedns and your hostname in pf
        example update string:
        http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?dfgdsgfsdjk689GYUIFdfg==
        this is what you want to paste in the hostname in pf: dfgdsgfsdjk689GYUIFdfg

        -Chris Stutzman
        Sys0:2.0.1: AMD Sempron 140 @2.7 1024M RAM 100GHD
        Sys1:2.0.1: Intel P4 @2.66 1024M RAM 40GHD
        freedns.afraid.org - Free DNS dynamic DNS subdomain and domain hosting.
        Check out the pfSense Wiki

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          tempy
          last edited by

          So, should I fill it this way?

          Service type: freedns
          Hostname: string
          username: username
          password: password

          For example, in dd-wrt the hostname is filled with: blabla.bleble.com,string

          Should I just put the string or put it like I do in dd-wrt?

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            XIII
            last edited by

            when you go here: http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ 
            under dynamic update candidates you will have this:

            hostename Direct URL | Wget Script | Edit Record IP

            direct url is what you want, as i said before, copy that link, paste in wordpad and then copy everything between ? and ==, thats what you will put in for the hostname

            example update string:
            http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?dfgdsgfsdjk689GYUIFdfg==
            this is what you want to paste in the hostname in pf: dfgdsgfsdjk689GYUIFdfg

            Service type: freedns
            Hostname: from the update string above paste everything after the ? and before == in this example: dfgdsgfsdjk689GYUIFdfg
            username: username
            password: password

            -Chris Stutzman
            Sys0:2.0.1: AMD Sempron 140 @2.7 1024M RAM 100GHD
            Sys1:2.0.1: Intel P4 @2.66 1024M RAM 40GHD
            freedns.afraid.org - Free DNS dynamic DNS subdomain and domain hosting.
            Check out the pfSense Wiki

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              nickolas
              last edited by

              Hi guys,

              thx very much for this excellent explanation.

              Well done.

              hy,

              nickolas

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