Eric Nix
Ken Carnesi What is the status of this? You posted this in 2018. Would be really nice if DNSFilter had a DDNS update service or allowed common DDNS domains to update without being blocked.
I'm having an issue where my Verizon 5G Internet that I use for WAN failover cannot update its WAN IP address with DDNS because the new WAN IP is unrecognized by DNSFilter. Therefore, No-IP never updates the new WAN IP. Unfortunately, Verizon changes WAN IP at least weekly. I've had to set the DNS for my WAN failover to 1.1.1.2 and 1.0.0.2 since I cannot use DNSFilter to update No-IP's DDNS.
Steve Staden
Eric Nix: Appreciate the interest. Currently we don't have any plans for a DDNS service.
Just wanted to acknowledge your issue that we're also discussing over email. Appreciate you raising it.
Karik Hill
I think, given that DNSfilter rejects traffic from rogue IPs, the requirement for a native Dynamic IP updater is high. I imagine that stripping the binding out of the RC would get most of the way there.
Chad Lauterbach
I want to make sure this request is what I think it is. For sites without a static IP or CIDR block, allow the router to make a dynamic DNS update request to update the WAN IP for that site. Right? We definitely would like this for small branch offices.
Eric Nix
Chad Lauterbach Yes, that's exactly what is needed. DNSFilter blocks unregistered IPs. When a new WAN IP is obtained, a router can't update the DDNS server with the new WAN IP because it is blocked by DNSFilter due to it being an unregistered WAN IP.
DDNS needs a way to allow common DDNS servers to bypass any filtering (i.e., No-IP, DynamicDNS, CloudFlare, etc.).
Darrin Piotrowski
We migrated from Umbrella, they have their own DNS updating service. It works, without installing the roaming client. Please add this solution. Thanks.
Sean Ardizzone
Bumping for more support. This would be really useful as many of my clients have dynamic DNS. Can't there be an API or something like what no-ip.com does for free clients?
Shane Kelly
Unfortunately no
Mikey @DNSFilter
We are investigating potential ways to provide a Dynamic DNS updating service. One potential solution is to utilize our Roaming Clients when active and present on at a site deployment.
Would this method provide an adequate solution for you?
Scott Whittington
Mikey @DNSFilter: not really my sites are just Guest Networks.
Moshe de Freudiger
Mikey @DNSFilter: No. We have found the roaming clients to be very unreliable so we don't use them.
Ken Carnesi
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Eric Nix
Ken Carnesi Mikey @DNSFilter Any further development on this? DNSFilter should operate something similar to NoIP/DynDNS service with ability to allow routers to update WAN IP (not just roaming clients). Currently my WAN failover IP won't update because DNSFilter blocks traffic from the unknown IP and prevents updating from NoIP, DynDNS, and Namecheap. I've tried all 3.
Another way to allow this without DNSFilter offering the Dynamic DNS service is to whitelist all the domains from the most common Dynamic DNS providers. I thought a help article suggested this is happening, but it's been my experience that if my WAN2 has DNSFilter's DNS servers listed, then it won't update when the IP changes.
Steve Staden
Eric Nix: No updates to share on this right now. However, let me follow-up with you over email to get more details on the configurations you used for these services.