Elk M1XEP Dyn Dns Updater

I am useing dyndns.com for my dynamic ip address. I have the xep setup to report changes to dyndns. My ip changes very rarely, I think my prior address might have been a year old or more. It changed yesterday and Elk sent me an email that it had changed and then another telling me it successfully updated dyndns. But it did not. I checked my xep settings and it turns out the password for dyndns was wrong. I guess I chnaged it and forgot to update the xep.

But, my concern is that Elk sent me an email stating the update was successful when it was not! What's up with that? When I hit the "test" button in the xep it gave me errors until I fixed the password. Also, once I fixed the password and hit "Test", it said that it did not update because it hadn't changed. But my current IP was not what dyndns had. I ended up manually updating dyndns using their web-portal.

All in all, I am not terribly impressed with xep's handling of the situation. Granted, I had the wrong password in there, but it shouldn't have told me it successfully updated. It also should have done an update after I fixed the password.

XEP is running 1.3.26 firmware.

This isn't fixing your problem, but can you handle the dynamic dns name in your router? I do this with an older Linksys for myself and D-Link for two friends with success. I did switch from dyndns.com to tzo.com (tzo.com seemed more reliable after dyndns change their domain name).

BraveSirRobbin said:

This isn't fixing your problem, but can you handle the dynamic dns name in your router? I do this with an older Linksys for myself and D-Link for two friends with success. I did switch from dyndns.com to tzo.com (tzo.com seemed more reliable after dyndns change their domain name).

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Yes, I can do it with my router, however, I liked the emails that Elk sends notifying me of the IP change (which the router doesn't do). I guess I'm just very dissapointed with Elk.

I haven't had any troubles with dyndns. What sort of issues have you experienced?

Since Dyn changed to a "paid" setup, I've had multiple issues with accounts, failures with the DNS propagation and ARCNET tables being updated on multiple providers servers and hardware.

I moved to No-IP and seems to work slightly better since DYN's change in structure.

I haven't had any issues with keeping my free service working. But, then again, I may not have had an IP change for all I know.

Lou-
I don't remember... are you using a custom firmware in your router? If you are, you can get a notice for anything. When I was using PPTP for an iPhone (which thankfully I only had for a few months) I had the my router text me with every connect/disconnect so if it wasn't me I'd be ready to connect, change the password and kick them off.

video321 said:

I haven't had any issues with keeping my free service working. But, then again, I may not have had an IP change for all I know.

Lou-
I don't remember... are you using a custom firmware in your router? If you are, you can get a notice for anything. When I was using PPTP for an iPhone (which thankfully I only had for a few months) I had the my router text me with every connect/disconnect so if it wasn't me I'd be ready to connect, change the password and kick them off.

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No, router is a linksys vpn router that runs linksys firmware. I looked at loading third party firmware but none seem to be compatible. Router works great just doesn't have the email feature on it.

I have noticed that dyndns doesn't seem to allow new free accounts. My old free account keeps working fine and I haven't had any issues with it. I also have a no-ip free account which works well too. I generally use the dyndns url just because. . . no real reason.

I think Elk needs to look at the firmware on the xep. I am assuming that dyndns did not indicate a successful update when Elk didn't even send the correct password. It shouldn't have sent me an email saying it was successful. It did tell me that it erred when I manually tested it with the wrong password. Obviously now having the correct password will go a long way to not having this problem, but if something else caused it to fail, I assume it would still send me an email that all went as planned, and I don't like that.

That's too bad that they don't do free accounts anymore - I've had mine for like 10 years! I will say, when having an IP that only changes yearly or so, the only reliable updater I've found is their PC client - I've yet to find a router that reliably does the updates even if nothing changed.

I use no-ip. Com, easy and reliable.

Only issues is, with the free service, must click a link to renew monthly, otherwise the dns dies

I've had the same issue with dyndns.com since the last firmware upgrade. Instead of trying to fix the issue, I just set up a rule to make the emails auto-archive.

If you own a domain that you can use, I recommend DNSimple. If you are somewhat technical, they have a really simple REST API that you can call from a script that will update your IP.