[pfSense Support] Dyndns and PPPoE

[Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)]

Running 0.84 Dyndns(dynamic) seems to still be flaky  .. last week I registered a custom dns with dnydns .. and it works 100% of the time. I have one router setup with one PPPoE dialout and another set with a different one.   I “load balanance” incoming traffic by giving half of the people I meet one dyndns address which the one machine registers, and the other half the other dnydns ( custom ).   SO : The custom dyndns is always upto date.. the dynamic one is a problem. But only recently .. I think from around 0.82 Its been unreliable. My IP gets changed every 24-48 hours and the problem is because I have multiple outbounds so I can’t use a update client cause it won’t know which gateway to use.   Updating the dyndns (dynamic) setting manually gives me:   Sep 12 16:26:01 php: /services_dyndns.php: phpDynDNS: No Change In My IP Address and/or 28 Days Has Not Past. Not Updating Dynamic DNS Entry.   Dynamic DNS client Enable Service type DynDNS (dynamic) DynDNS (static) DynDNS (custom) DHS DyNS HN.ORG ZoneEdit easyDNS No-IP ODS.org Hostname MX Set this option only if you need a special MX record. Not all services support this. Wildcards Enable Wildcard Username Password     Doing a reboot doesn’t help either – only way is to do it manually by going to the dyndns page and putting in WAN IP.   Which I did on Friday .. played a bit now and this is the date I get of my last update: IP in Database/DNS: 165.165.217.60 Last Updated: Fri Sep 9 11:17:28 2005   Looking at my DynDns account I notice that my wildcard is set to ON on PF and OFF on dynDns .. I wonder if this can be the cause ? Need to do some more testing locally…     Ivan.