Schedule Forced dynDNS Update?

Hi all,

I switched to VDSL 100Mbit which means I have to install a dedicated router in front of my pfSense box while the WAN interface of pfSense gets its IP now from the DHCP server of the front router.

Obviously this WAN IP does not change at all. But the external public IP of the router changes every 24hrs. After a change my pfSense does not recon the IP change and thus is not updating my dynDNS entry. So my OpenVPN connections are getting lost :-\

I use afraid.org for dynDNS purposes which runs fine with pfSense. Unfortunately the new router does not support afraid.org.

Is there an other way to force pfSense to update the IP regularly?

Or do I have to switch my dynDNS provider- in this case which one is available free of charge?

Thanks!

Greetings

Christian

Hi all!

I kind of solved this issue by adding an crontab entry to one of my 24/7 Linux servers on my LAN.


3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,58 * * * * sleep 34 ; wget --no-check-certificate -O - https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx= >> /tmp/freedns_host_mooo_com.log 2>&1 &

doktornotor

Have a strange feeling you'll get yourself banned very soon for abusing their service. Why are you running this every 5 minutes when the IP changes once a day? ::)

ashima

Hi Knebb,

For Dynamic DNS,

In Services –> Dynamic DNS

Service type : custom
Interface to Monitor : WAN
Interface to send update from: WAN
Update URL : https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=

Probably you have to pass username,password and ip=%IP% along the update URL (Check afraid.org for that)
Save and force update.

I think this would automatically update. I am not sure about the frequency. You can write the cron job to update every 12h.

Good Luck and have a nice day,
Ashima

@doktornotor:

Have a strange feeling you'll get yourself banned very soon for abusing their service. Why are you running this every 5 minutes when the IP changes once a day? ::)

Well, as I do not know the next reset of my connection because this !"§$"$%& Telekom router does not offer scheduled reset I can only guess when the connection is reset. For this I have to update the freeDNS providres automatically.

But you are right, I now wrapped up a Bash script which tests my external IP before updating the entry.
See here:


#!/bin/bash
ip=`dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com`
ip_old=`dig host.mooo.com| grep -A1 ANSWER| grep IN|cut -f 5`

if [ "$ip" == "$ip_old" ] ; then
                        exit
fi

wget --no-check-certificate -O - https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> /tmp/freedns_host_mooo_com.log 2>&1 &

This script is now scheduled to run every 5 minutes. There should not be any abuse now…

@ashima: well, re-read my described issue above. Your post does not help at all. I can not monitor my WAN as it is a private IP address. Sorry.

GReetings

Christian

kejianshi

At freedns.afraid.org under dynamic dns there is a link you can click to get a cron entry.

I copied that and replace "wget -O -" with just "fetch" and pasted it into the command box for pfsense cron entries

No dashes and no -O

Waited 5 minutes and it updated.

p.s. The reason he set it for every 5 minutes is because thats what freedns.afraid.org recommends