Every now and then someone is asking about DynDNS support in Mikrotik and all you can get is the answer from “ChangeIP” that “we do the same thing as dyndns. we are even better and cheaper : )”.
NOT TRUE !
I do not know why the guys in Mikrotik avoid to deal with it, when it is obvious that it is needed by lots of people, but until they do…
I have an idea but I need help from someone who is more familiar with sripting, and not satisfied with available solutions.
You can also telnet to “members.dyndns.org” - port 80 and type in the GET command like:
"GET /nic/update?hostname=yourhostname&myip=ipaddress&wildcard=NOCHG&mx=NOCHG&backmx=NOCHG HTTP/1.0
Host: members.dyndns.org
Authorization: Basic usr:pass base-64 encoded
User-Agent: Company - Device - Version Number
This works excellent from any telnet client (SecureCRT…) but it doesn’t from Mikrotik. Using Mikrotik telnet client, connection closes after “GET…” with no response.
If anybody have an idea how to continue - welcome
It is not true that ChangeIP and DynDNS are the same !!
I don’t even want to compare and to suggest which is better but it is a fact that DynDNS exists, that people want to use it, that lot of routers have a built-in support for it, and so on.
And - you are missing the point. Instead of giving the answer to my question - why your guys are avoiding this issue, you are wandering “what exactly is not true?”
As normis writes use the fetch tool… The fetch tool is one of the best things that RouterOS has…
You can use any of the dynamic dns provides that uses a url update!
Let me state my opinions, and these are only opinions.
1 - DynDNS and ChangeIP.com are not the same. We provide the same services almost. We are always lower cost. We provide a better overall experience. : )
2 - Your account will get locked out with DynDNS 100x more often than on our service. This is because they are very strict about the update frequency and cannot handle updates for the same IP too often.
3 - There are RouterOS users with multiple locations using our free services. I dont think DynDNS will allow you to use their free service for that many locations do they ?
4 - Fetch doesnt support base64 authorization at the moment (I dont think, could be wrong). Unless you can pass your username and password in a querystring, which is very unsafe, I don’t think it will work. If it does, great, copy our script and modify it to your needs.
5 - We provide support specific to Mikrotik RouterOS here in the forums as well as via email. Try to ask DynDNS for support and most likely they won’t. We test our scripts on almost every release of RouterOS for compatibility and update it when necessary.
changeip.. i would like to know if there any of your service that can create unlimited changeip addresses. coz i have to create another account to use more than 5 changeip dynamic dns addresses
If you purchase a domain registration and dynamic dns you can use as many hostnames under that domain as you wish on our site. The free services are a little more limited for abuse reasons.