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

tempy · Mar 31, 2010, 3:51 AM

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.

XIII · Apr 1, 2010, 4:10 AM

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

tempy · Apr 2, 2010, 2:09 AM

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?

XIII · Apr 3, 2010, 2:02 AM

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

nickolas · May 15, 2010, 10:31 AM

Hi guys,

thx very much for this excellent explanation.

Well done.

hy,

nickolas