On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:52 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> not the port. My external IP is dynamic. This is really standard for internet 
> services in Germany offered to non-business users, or also business that 
> prefer not the pay extra charges for the assignment of a static ip address. 
> My IP address changes at least once a day (usually between 1 am and 2 am). 
> Usually one uses a dyndns provider, and many routers support updating the ip 
> address automatically. As I am running my external DNS with cloudflar, I am 
> calling their API to update my external address.
> Now afaik Wireguard resolves the domain name of the server just once to an IP 
> address and not regularly or whenever the connection breaks down or has been 
> idle for some time.
> PersistentKeepAlive cannot address the issue, as the client is also not awake 
> all the time in order to save energy. Looking at wg /? on windows I also 
> don“t see any option that seems applicable..

Ahhh, the DNS re-resolution issue. On linux we have this nice script:

https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/tree/contrib/examples/reresolve-dns

On windows, it should be pretty easy to do as well. You can actually
just use task scheduler to run `wg set wg0 peer ABCD...EF= endpoint
somewhere.on.dyndns:1234` every minute or whatever you feel is best.
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