80.18. How to setup DDNS service on Abilis

80.18. How to setup DDNS service on Abilis
	Chapter 80. HowTo - Networking

80.18.1. How to setup DDNS service using dyndns.org

Point your browser to www.dyndns.com, click Sign In. Then fill username and password if you have already an account or Create an Account.

Figure 80.1. Home page

If you have already an account on dyndns.com you can skip the following steps and jump to this paragraph.

Fill the requested fields username, password, email.
Choose the options desired in the Subscribe to section and enter the numbers of the security image.
Check the privacy policy.
Click the Create Account button.

In the figure below username and password are abilistest. Remember these values because they will be used to configure Abilis.

Figure 80.2. Account creation

An email with the following text will be sent to the email address entered above. Click on the link to complete the account creation process.

Figure 80.3. Conformation link

Now your account is activated. Point your browser to www.dyndns.com, click Sign In and fill username and password entered above.

Figure 80.4. Login

After logging in, a page with services, billing and account settings is shown. Click Add Host Services in My Services column.

Figure 80.5. Dyndns services

The following page is very important because here you can choose the DNS name associated to the dynamic IP entering hostname and domain. For example, if hostname is abilistest and the chosen domain is dyndns.org, the resulting DNS name is abilistest.dyndns.org.

Fill the Hostname field and select dyndns.org from the drop-down menu.
Select Host with IP address radio button.
Enter IP address.
Select services and devices to use with the chosen hostname.
Click add to cart.

Figure 80.6. Hostname configuration

Click Checkout to activate in the following page.

Figure 80.7. Checkout

Click Next button.

Figure 80.8. Shopping cart

Click Activate Services. Now the configuration of the services on dyndns.org is completed.

Figure 80.9. Activation of services

In the next section there are the steps to follow to configure Abilis DDNS service.

80.18.2. How to setup DDNS service on Abilis

Assuming that the IP resource toward Internet is IP-1 and it's already activated and configured (see chapters in the section How to Networking).

Enter into the Abilis control-program or open the configuration file with the Console configurator and type the following commands.

a res:dns or s act res:dns	Add the DDNS resource. or If the resource already exists, set it active.
s p ddns act:yes	Activate the DDNS resource.
s p ddns service:dyndns.org	Set the DDNS service name.
s p ddns user:abilistest pwd:abilistest	Set username and password.
s p ip-1 ddns:yes	Enable DDNS for the resource IP-1.
s p ip-1 ddns-fqdn:abilistest.dyndns.org	Set the FQDN for the resource IP-1.
save conf	Save the configuration.

On a working Abilis, a system restart is required to make the IP-1 resource running.


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