Dynamic DNS not working

DaReaLDeviL

Hello,

I have the following settings -> pfsense -> router all working like expected but not the dynamic dns on a manged account @ dyn.com. I put everthing like in my router. Router does it's job fine (fritbox 7390). But not the dyndns on the pfsense. It detects the change then highlight the old cached ip in red but dont update it again. I have to click edit and save it. Then an update occurs.

How is it possible that after the cached ip is red an automatic update of the dyn entrie is done?

I have allready found

http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2166
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2148

But this doesnt help me much :-(

wallabybob

You might find something relevant in the dyndns events in the system log.

DaReaLDeviL

Hmmm not realy?! ???

Sep 18 21:18:36 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: phpDynDNS: (Success) IP Address Changed Successfully!
Sep 18 21:21:19 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns: updatedns() starting
Sep 18 21:21:19 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns debug information: 87.139.187.22 extracted from local system.
Sep 18 21:21:19 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns: Current WAN IP: 87.139.187.22 Cached IP: 87.139.187.22
Sep 18 21:21:19 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: phpDynDNS: No change in my IP address and/or 25 days has not passed. Not updating dynamic DNS entry.
Sep 18 21:21:22 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns: updatedns() starting
Sep 18 21:21:23 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns debug information: 87.139.187.233 extracted from checkip.dyndns.org
Sep 18 21:21:23 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns: Current WAN IP: 87.139.187.233 Cached IP: 87.139.187.233
Sep 18 21:21:23 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: phpDynDNS: No change in my IP address and/or 25 days has not passed. Not updating dynamic DNS entry.
Sep 18 21:21:27 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns: updatedns() starting
Sep 18 21:21:27 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns debug information: 188.174.220.11 extracted from checkip.dyndns.org
Sep 18 21:21:27 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: DynDns: Current WAN IP: 188.174.220.11 Cached IP: 188.174.220.11
Sep 18 21:21:27 php: /services_dyndns_edit.php: phpDynDNS: No change in my IP address and/or 25 days has not passed. Not updating dynamic DNS entry.

wallabybob

Sorry, I don't really understand your issue.

Apparently your dynamic DNS entries were updated "recently enough" for them to be not updated at the times of the entries you quoted. If you copied those entries from the web GUI it might be useful to use the pfSense shell command```

clog /var/log/system.log | grep -i dns


If any of the monitored interfaces has a public IP address an address change will automatically trigger a dynamic dns update.

Your log should contain some lines like the first four lines of

> Sep 19 01:01:03 pfsense2 php: : DynDns: DynDns _update() starting.
> Sep 19 01:01:03 pfsense2 php: : DNS-O-Matic: DNS update() starting.
> Sep 19 01:01:03 pfsense2 php: : DynDns: DynDns _checkStatus() starting.
> Sep 19 01:01:03 pfsense2 php: : DynDns: Current Service: dnsomatic
> Sep 19 01:01:03 pfsense2 php: : Curl error occurred: Couldn't bind to ''

The next couple of lines may not contain the (case blind) string _DNS_ but give some information about the fate of the update attempt (in the example above, _Curl error occurred: Couldn't bind to ''_ )

What does "Curl error occurred: Couldn't bind to" mean?

jimp

"Couldn't bind to '' " error usually means that it's trying to run on an interface that doesn't actually have an IP address configured on it.

deltalord

I have exactly the same issue with No-IP (using ADSL with 24h disconnect). Upon the scheduled disconnect the logfile looks like this


Apr 21 02:14:13 pfsense php: : DynDns: updatedns() starting
Apr 21 02:14:13 pfsense php: : DynDns debug information: XXX.XXX.31.201 extracted from local system.
Apr 21 02:14:13 pfsense php: : DynDns: Current WAN IP: XXX.XXX.31.201 Cached IP: XXX.XXX.25.7 
Apr 21 02:14:13 pfsense php: : DynDns debug information: DynDns: cacheIP != wan_ip.  Updating. Cached IP: XXX.XXX.25.7 WAN IP: XXX.XXX.31.201 
Apr 21 02:14:13 pfsense php: : DynDns: DynDns _update() starting.
Apr 21 02:15:28 pfsense php: : DynDns: DynDns _checkStatus() starting.
Apr 21 02:15:28 pfsense php: : DynDns: Current Service: noip

but the cached IP within the GUI shows in red and is in fact the old IP given by the ISP. When checking the dashboard I can see that "Current WAN IP" is correct within the logfile, but somehow pfsense doesn't manage to update to the new IP properly.