Dynamic IP setting is not available in Winbox, it should be
It suports changeip service only. It works ok but it should suuport other services too
It does not allow full usage of ChangeIP.
I have this problem: my MT is behind other NAT router which does not have any advanced options (unfortunately, that is forced by my ADSL provider, and I cannot change that). That means, my MT does not have public IP assotiated to itself.
ChangeIP service has very simple soultion to this situation: if Ip is not provided during DNS update request, detected IP which from request came through is used to update DNS.
Problem is that MT does not allow us to send DNS update request without specifying valid IP address. Thus, we are unabel to set dynamic DNS if we do not know exact public IP we want to set in DNS. MT has no means to findout public IP of the network it belogs to, so we are at dead ent.
What is needed is to change MT dns-update command to allow us to skip entering IP address.
I believe you can send 127.100.0.1 or something - this magic IP will get stripped on our side and remote ip detection will occur. Search the forums for this IP and if you can’t find it let me know, I will look for it.
See the above post, it has more details.
PS - Rather than just schedule this to send us an update every 5 mins lets figure out how to determine when it needs to update so we can trigger it only when necessary. Are you behind a full nat and never know when the outside device changes ?
We have some customers who wish to update their DNS to 0.0.0.0 … otherwise we would have use that as the magic A record. We are trying to keep this undocumented because it’s not advised to use it this way in the first place. . .
Well, it would be easier if MT simply allows us not to provide IP address on DNS update
Is it ok to update DNS every five minutes? Is your service capable to recognize that IP did not change so it simply skips request to save at least some of the resources?
It does save resources if your IP doesn’t change, however it is best if we can get updates only when they do change. With 500,000 people updating every 5 minutes it gets a little hefty : )
Maybe there is a way we could run a netwatch or something else that would identify if your ip changed. Let’s think about this. . . we would need to send some identifying information and return a status code usable from script. Maybe a :resolve or something. . . let me look info this for a few mins to see if I can come up with something.
Well, I always complained about MT’s ridiculous scripting ability
If it offers proper scripting language it would be much easier.
I hpe I could get some spare time to make simple app that would get p on it’s own adn then send update request to changeip. I found few apps that claim to do so but failed to make them work.
This is a real problem for me as well… I am putting in about 300 hotspots and they are all behind firewalls and will only have CIDR addresses on them. I really need to be able to update changeip hostnames???
At 300 licenses of $45 I would think that this may be a slightly high priority for MT??
We’ll see what we can come up with to make it work even when using a natted address on the wan interface … I might have some tricks up my sleeve. Maybe : )
