Hello World!
This morning’s post will be quick, but hopefully useful. I recently wrote about my experience with acquiring and implementing a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG) as my edge firewall. That post is here.
One of the really handy things that the USG supports native Dynamic DNS integration with several different providers, including mine (DynDNS (now owned by Oracle). I know this isn’t a new feature for network gear to support but it is still a handy one in my book and I’m happy to have it.
The Dynamic DNS integration is incredibly easy to configure from the Unifi Controller interface. Shown below, you can find the Dynamic DNS configuration in the controller settings under Services. I am running version 5.10.25 on this controller. Also shown below is a listing of the supported dynamic dns providers.
An example configuration for DynDNS is shown below. Click the image to enlarge. It is important to note that DynDNS does now require a nominal subscription for this service (roughly $55 a year).
Finally, the host update logs from DynDNS (shown below). My particulars are blue’d out but you get the picture. This definitely beats running an agent on one of my Windows boxes.
I know that this isn’t an exceptionally complicated or exotic feature, but with traditional ISPs not giving out static IPs like they used to it is an important one.
I hope this post has been useful. If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below. More to come on the USG in later posts!
-Justin
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