Hi Martin. You've hit right on the problem. The IP is NOT different than
the cached IP, thus the client will not update no matter what I do, even
if I delete the entry entirely and re-create it (much less your simpler
suggestion).
My question very specifically was whether is it possible to force an
update WITHOUT changing the interface address (i.e. without changing the
address as a method of making the IP different than the cached IP)
Does anyone know if it is possible?
Should the client be tweaked to check the DNS host in addition to
checking the cached value, or have something like a "force update" function?
-Karl
On 2/22/2012 6:14 AM, Fuchs, Martin wrote:
Hi !
Try editing the dyndns-provider and just hit the save button J
This should work, if the ip is different from the cached ip
Regards,
martin
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*Betreff:* [pfSense] Dynamic DNS force update?
Is there a way to force the Dynamic DNS client to post an update?
It would appear that the only way to do this is to change the IP
address bound to the montored interface.
My question very specifically is, is it possible to force an update
WITHOUT changing the interface address?
I have a remote installation where I want to configure the DDNS
client, and currently the DNS server currently has the WRONG address,
so naturally I would like the correction to be performed by the DDNS
client as a validation of the initial configuration. The problem is
that the client will not post an update because it ONLY looks to see
if the cached IP value on the interface has not changed. It does not
(for example) look to the DNS host to see if there's a mismatch.
Disabling/Enabling the client will NOT trigger an update because it
still relies only on the cached value of the interface.
DELETING and re-creating the client entry completely will also fail to
trigger an update for the same reason.
Obviously I can't release the remote WAN IP address from the interface
because I would lose my connectivity.
Is there a way to clear this cached value, or force an update? Maybe
from the command line?
Can I put in a plea to include a 'force update' button, in a future
release, or preferably have the client just automatically dip the DNS
host to check to see if there is an initial IP mismatch? At a
minimum it seems this should happen at the creation of the client,
perhaps also when settings are changed or when the client is bounced.
If you have an urge to say "Just go change the A record the first
time", please sit on your hands. :-)
Thanks!
-K
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