Advanced Untangle Tip of the Day! (Dynamic IP Address)

[gotkimchi]

Many ISPs charge you extra to have a static IP address. No need to fear, Untangle can save you $5-10 per month to use your dynamic IP address.

To specify Dynamic DNS for the Untangle Server:

Register with a Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) vendor such as DynDNS at http://www.dyndns.com. Complete the service provider's registration, and record the following information, which you need to configure the Untangle Server as shown in Figure, Configuring Untangle Server To Use Dynamic DNS:


Account Name. Account name that you used to register for the dynamic DNS service.
Password. Password that you used to register for the dynamic DNS service.
Host Name and Domain Name. The Internet host name and domain name that you registered with the DDNS service provider.


Caution: Do not download and configure any third-party dynamic DNS clients (for example, the DynDNS Client Updater). The Untangle Server has its own client. If you install DynDNS Client Updater, that client will conflict with Untangle Server's dynamic DSN client.

From the Navigation Pane, click the Config tab > Networking. The Network Config windows launches.
Click the Hostname tab.
In the Hostname pane, type the hostname that you registered with DynDNS.
In the Dynamic DNS pane, type your DynDNS account information. Congratulations! You should now be able to contact your Untangle Server from the Internet using its hostname.


http://wiki.untangle.com/images/c/ca/ConfigureDynamicDNS.png

[Snet.Admin]

Does the Untangle team forsee supporting multiple DynDns registrations that point to a single ip?

Is there any known way @ the moment to configure the current client that Untangle uses to support this feature?

Regards,

[gotkimchi]

Currently this is unsupported. I guess you can get another device that can support this, and put the Untangle behind it in a bridge mode.

This is the first request for this feature so not sure if it will make the final cut. But we will consider it.

[Allanon]

Does Untangle currently, or will it in the future release..support other Dynamic DNS hosts such as No-IP.org?

Or could I install the Linux updater client for no-ip.org?

[amac]

I believe that someone has done np-ip.org already through linux..........

[amac]

Check out this post by silver bullet. Great stuff from the best of Silver.
http://forums.untangle.com/showthread.php?p=6024#post6024

[mdh]

Geesh, amac!

Don't refer to Silver Bullet and "best of" in the same sentence. When they do that with music, it means the artist is no longer relevant, needs money, can't do anything new, and there's still enough suckers to fall for it. I think he's still got some wizardry left!

[Silver Bullet]

"Best of Silver"? Now that's scary. :D

[amac]

lol, for sure. who knew.
Sounds like a good thread.
Or a bad cable t.v. show.
It was a solid effort regardless.

[zal]

how often will the untangle box update to dyndns?? IS there a way I can change the about of time?

[Silver Bullet]

Welcome to the forums!

The default time is 5 minutes. If you want to change it to something else you can do it in /etc/default/ddclient. In the file it is specified in seconds.

How it works is, every 5 minutes, it checks what is in /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache. If the address is the same as what the cache file has then it does not update with your dyndns provider. If the address is different in that cache file, it updates it.

[zal]

Thanks for your reply Silver, my untangle box isn't updating to dyndns :( I have fulled all the details correctly. I have logged into dyndns and it hasn't been updated for two days :(

I'm new to Linux, what can I do?

[Silver Bullet]

Open the terminal and run this command and post any errors
ddclient --verbose

[zal]

I only have remote access, tried shh but I haven't enable it :(

[zal]

~ # ddclient -verbose
CONNECT: checkip.dyndns.com
CONNECTED:
SENDING: GET / HTTP/1.0
SENDING: Host: checkip.dyndns.com
SENDING: User-Agent: ddclient/3.6.2
SENDING: Connection: close
SENDING:
RECEIVE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
RECEIVE: Content-Type: text/html
RECEIVE: Server: DynDNS-CheckIP/1.0
RECEIVE: Connection: close
RECEIVE: Cache-Control: no-cache
RECEIVE: Pragma: no-cache
RECEIVE: Content-Length: 105
RECEIVE:
RECEIVE: <html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: 122.57.10.xxx</body></html>
INFO: setting IP address to 122.57.10.xxx for xxx
UPDATE: updating peg
CONNECT: members.dyndns.org
CONNECTED:
SENDING: GET /nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=peg&myip=122.57.10.xxx HTTP/1.0
SENDING: Host: members.dyndns.org
SENDING: Authorization: Basic YWlzZWN1cml0eTphbWNsMzc=
SENDING: User-Agent: ddclient/3.6.2
SENDING: Connection: close
SENDING:
RECEIVE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
RECEIVE: Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:05:57 GMT
RECEIVE: Server: Apache
RECEIVE: X-UpdateCode: X
RECEIVE: Content-Length: 7
RECEIVE: Connection: close
RECEIVE: Content-Type: text/plain
RECEIVE:
RECEIVE: notfqdn
FAILED: updating peg: notfqdn: A Fully-Qualified Domain Name was not provided
~ #





DynDNS says last update was 1 of april

[Silver Bullet]

FAILED: updating peg: notfqdn: A Fully-Qualified Domain Name was not provided

Did you enter the fully qualified domain name in the dyndns settings? That is implying that you haven't. You will need to enter it just as you access it remotely.

[zal]

Thanks for your reply Silver.
I have just setup a new host, entered all the details.
Now I am getting this?
I am guessing this means it has nothing to update being the ip hasn't changed?

thanks for your help.


CONNECTED:
SENDING: GET / HTTP/1.0
SENDING: Host: checkip.dyndns.com
SENDING: User-Agent: ddclient/3.6.2
SENDING: Connection: close
SENDING:
RECEIVE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
RECEIVE: Content-Type: text/html
RECEIVE: Server: DynDNS-CheckIP/1.0
RECEIVE: Connection: close
RECEIVE: Cache-Control: no-cache
RECEIVE: Pragma: no-cache
RECEIVE: Content-Length: 105
RECEIVE:
RECEIVE: <html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Add ress: 122.57.10.xxx</body></html>
WARNING: skipping update of peguntangle from <nothing> to 122.57.10.xxx.
WARNING: last updated <never> but last attempt on Mon Apr 7 14:59:29 2008 fai led.
WARNING: Wait at least 5 minutes between update attempts.

[zal]

I've fixed it :lol
Silly really.

Under host name you have to xyz.dnsdojo.com and have the dnsdojo.com in the suffix. I only had xyz as the host name, didn't have dnsdojo at the end.

Annoying really as it was so easy. :mad:

[mdh]

You live.
You bang your head against the wall.
You learn.
Glad you got it!

[zal]

lol well said