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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 9:46 am
by cosmith71
Roberto, could you update the original post and make this a sticky? It will certainly help the new folks.

--Colin

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:21 am
by binder
Sacohen wrote:Yes it did. There was a problem with the android app or the portal with the "_".
the character violated the dns name specifications, so the character was changed to be in compliance with the dns standards.

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:25 am
by binder
cosmith71 wrote:Roberto, could you update the original post and make this a sticky? It will certainly help the new folks.

--Colin
i just updated the OP and changed the "_" to "-" and made the topic a sticky.

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:31 am
by cosmith71
Thanks, Curt.

--Colin

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:52 pm
by vvjosh06
I'm still having problems with my portal. i cant seem to access it outside of the app or on reef angel website. ive tried posting my ddns into the address bar and even tried the ip address for my wifi attachement. im lost

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:11 am
by cosmith71
vvjosh06 wrote:I'm still having problems with my portal. i cant seem to access it outside of the app or on reef angel website. ive tried posting my ddns into the address bar and even tried the ip address for my wifi attachement. im lost
The Portal (website) and the apps are the only ways to access your RA right now. Accessing the controller directly is still in beta and doesn't work very well.

--Colin

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:18 am
by lnevo
If you want to access it directly add /r99 to the URL (http://www.xxx.yyy.zzz:2000/r99)

If this works with your internal IP and not your external IP then your port forwarding is not working

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 4:36 pm
by AlanM
I changed my subdomain from the default in a continuing set of things I'm doing to improve security a bit. Anyone know how quickly it gets updated by the RA server in the zone file?

Edit: It gets updated right away if you get the ReefAngel.Portal() syntax right. I forgot to put a comma between the username and portal key, so it never took affect until I fixed it. Doh.

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:25 am
by Echo5delta16
I am SO confused with out to make my RA accessible from anywhere outside of my network. I do not understand all of the jargon(dns, tcp, ymca, smtp). So far I have not found a thread that helps in simple terms how to set this up. i contacted reef angel and the guy has helped me with the wifi box connecting but he doesnt have any support for the port forwarding. i have a netgear router and i added the ports and ip address to port forwarding but still it doesnt work i have to assume its not as easy as typing in the port and ip address. because i did that and it doesnt work so there must be more to it. can anyone help with this? im willing to trade a zoa frag for information if need be.

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:31 am
by Sacohen
What model Netgear router?
I want to try information on it online.

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 11:41 am
by astralmind
hmmm if I simply use astralmind-reef.myreefangel.com, it attempts to connect directly to my router asking for its credentials. I have to add the ":2000" for it to bounce to my reef angel (and from there on it seems fine). Did I miss something ?

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 11:46 am
by binder
astralmind wrote:hmmm if I simply use astralmind-reef.myreefangel.com, it attempts to connect directly to my router asking for its credentials. I have to add the ":2000" for it to bounce to my reef angel (and from there on it seems fine). Did I miss something ?
Nope, that is correct. The DDNS service just points a domain name to your home network (ip address). you still need the port to get to the reef angel.

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 6:04 pm
by astralmind
binder wrote:
astralmind wrote:hmmm if I simply use astralmind-reef.myreefangel.com, it attempts to connect directly to my router asking for its credentials. I have to add the ":2000" for it to bounce to my reef angel (and from there on it seems fine). Did I miss something ?
Nope, that is correct. The DDNS service just points a domain name to your home network (ip address). you still need the port to get to the reef angel.

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Perfect, thanks! Awesome job on the android app btw, had not used it in 3 years, it evolved nicely

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 6:40 pm
by binder
astralmind wrote:
binder wrote:
astralmind wrote:hmmm if I simply use astralmind-reef.myreefangel.com, it attempts to connect directly to my router asking for its credentials. I have to add the ":2000" for it to bounce to my reef angel (and from there on it seems fine). Did I miss something ?
Nope, that is correct. The DDNS service just points a domain name to your home network (ip address). you still need the port to get to the reef angel.

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Perfect, thanks! Awesome job on the android app btw, had not used it in 3 years, it evolved nicely
Thanks!

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 5:34 am
by cosmith71
I've been having trouble with this for several days now. I'm unable to get a connection using myreefangel.com through Curt's app. Error 13 failed to connect, but it shows the wrong IP address. My no-ip address works fine, as does the portal. Has the myreefangel.com stopped updating for me?

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 7:58 am
by binder
cosmith71 wrote:I've been having trouble with this for several days now. I'm unable to get a connection using myreefangel.com through Curt's app. Error 13 failed to connect, but it shows the wrong IP address. My no-ip address works fine, as does the portal. Has the myreefangel.com stopped updating for me?
I thought I saw something about the service not being available anymore but I don't recall. I would have to search more for it. If it is stopped, I still have my domain available for use. It's not as easy as the RA one but it works and is free.

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:15 am
by binder
cosmith71 wrote:I've been having trouble with this for several days now. I'm unable to get a connection using myreefangel.com through Curt's app. Error 13 failed to connect, but it shows the wrong IP address. My no-ip address works fine, as does the portal. Has the myreefangel.com stopped updating for me?
yes, the RA ddns was brought down. see this post in the thread.
http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?p=56452#p56452
He doesn't elaborate more but it's down.

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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 9:17 am
by rimai
I need to figure out how to do it on a Linux system, which is what our new server is.
Until then, it is not updating :(

Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:30 am
by binder
rimai wrote:I need to figure out how to do it on a Linux system, which is what our new server is.
Until then, it is not updating :(
just a quick search yielded this
https://yingtongli.me/blog/2017/04/18/dynamic-dns.html
and this
http://andrwe.org/linux/own-ddns

now, i don’t know how well this would work for you but it can give you an idea of how to update the records when you get the values/ip address.


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Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:49 am
by cosmith71
That would explain it! I'm up and running on no-ip, so it's not a big deal right now.

Thanks!

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 3:48 am
by Ferdi
Any update on the DDNS?

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:47 am
by rimai
I didn't have time to check this out.
But with the new cloud service, this became obsolete, so I'm not so sure if this is going to be brought back.
The new cloud service allows for remote control and monitoring without any need of ip configuration or port forwarding.

Re: Our DDNS service

Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 2:12 pm
by binder
even if the Reef Angel ddns is obsolete, there still is the alternate ddns. it's not as easy as the ra version but it works.

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