Dynamic DNS domain questions.
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I transferred my domain name to NameCheap. Everything is for Dynamic DNS per NameCheaps instructions
I setup the pfSense box options, and it shows that my IP is currently green (aka correct), but it is not.
How do I force a check, or update? Through the shell, running top I don't see a service for this.
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There is a script (cron job) that runs daily at 1AM to check and update. If your pfSense monitored interface IP address is a private IP address then that is the only update mechanism, If the monitored interface IP address is a public IP address then an update should get triggered when DHCP (or PPP) changes the interface address.
From the pfSense shell you can see what happened on the updates by```
clog /var/log/system.log | grep -i dyndns
Here's an example from my system:clog /var/log/system.log | grep -i dyndns
Jul 11 01:01:01 pfsense php: : DynDns: updatedns() starting
Jul 11 01:01:01 pfsense php: : DynDns debug information: 203.144.x.y extracted from local system.
Jul 11 01:01:01 pfsense php: : DynDns: Current WAN IP: 203.144.x.y Cached IP: 203.144.x.y
Jul 11 01:01:01 pfsense php: : phpDynDNS: No change in my IP address and/or 25 days has not passed. Not updating dynamic DNS entry.
Jul 12 01:01:02 pfsense php: : DynDns: updatedns() starting
Jul 12 01:01:02 pfsense php: : DynDns debug information: 203.144.x.y extracted from local system.
Jul 12 01:01:02 pfsense php: : DynDns: Current WAN IP: 203.144.x.y Cached IP: 203.144.x.y
Jul 12 01:01:02 pfsense php: : phpDynDNS: No change in my IP address and/or 25 days has not passed. Not updating dynamic DNS entry. -
I don't see NameCheap as an option for Dynamic DNS Update from pfSense.
Cheers.
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I don't see NameCheap as an option for Dynamic DNS Update from pfSense.
It is on my system: 2.0-RC3-IPv6 (i386) built on Tue Jun 21 17:40:54 EDT 2011
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It is on my system: 2.0-RC3-IPv6 (i386) built on Tue Jun 21 17:40:54 EDT 2011
Ah. I'm still on 1.2.3.
Cheers.
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My namecheap dyndns entry (one of ~6 on my firewall) works properly for me, and I've been rebooting/reconnecting a lot lately, and my IP has been changing now and then.
I wrote the namecheap dyndns support on 2.0 so if there is a problem I can look at it, but it seems to be fine for me.
