pfSense -- What is the correct procedure for DDNS?

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#1

I am on pfSense v2.6.0.

What is the current/correct procedure to get DDNS working with it and dynv6?

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#2

Well, the recent version(s) of pfSense have support for dynv6 built-in right away.

Anyway I was struggeling with these and turned back to two custon v4/v6 entries for WAN and one custom v6 entry for my LAN nework as follows:

<dyndns>
    <type>custom</type>
    <username></username>
    <password></password>
    <host>berlin.myowndomain.eu</host>
    <domainname></domainname>
    <mx></mx>
    <interface>wan</interface>
    <zoneid></zoneid>
    <ttl></ttl>
    <updateurl>https://ipv4.dynv6.com/api/update?zone=berlin.myowndomain.eu&amp;ipv4=%IP%&amp;token=YOURTOKENHERE</updateurl>
    <resultmatch>addresses updated</resultmatch>
    <requestif>wan</requestif>
    <descr><![CDATA[IPv4]]></descr>
    <id>1</id>
    <enable></enable>
</dyndns>
<dyndns>
    <type>custom-v6</type>
    <username></username>
    <password></password>
    <host>berlin.myowndomain.eu</host>
    <domainname></domainname>
    <mx></mx>
    <interface>wan</interface>
    <zoneid></zoneid>
    <ttl></ttl>
    <updateurl>https://ipv4.dynv6.com/api/update?zone=berlin.myowndomain.eu&amp;ipv6=%IP%&amp;token=YOURTOKENHERE</updateurl>
    <resultmatch>addresses updated</resultmatch>
    <requestif>wan</requestif>
    <descr><![CDATA[IPv6]]></descr>
    <id>2</id>
    <enable></enable>
</dyndns>
<dyndns>
    <type>custom-v6</type>
    <username></username>
    <password></password>
    <host>myrouter.berlin.myowndomain.eu</host>
    <domainname></domainname>
    <mx></mx>
    <verboselog></verboselog>
    <enable></enable>
    <interface>lan</interface>
    <zoneid></zoneid>
    <ttl></ttl>
    <updateurl>https://ipv4.dynv6.com/api/update?zone=berlin.myowndomain.eu&amp;ipv6prefix=%IP%&amp;token=YOURTOKENHERE</updateurl>
    <resultmatch>addresses updated</resultmatch>
    <requestif>wan</requestif>
    <descr><![CDATA[IPv6]]></descr>
    <force></force>
    <id>3</id>
</dyndns>

Like this I’ve got the directly assigned IPs assigned to “berlin.myowndomain.eu” and the delegated prefix for that site assigned to the subdomains like “myrouter.berlin.my…”.