DNS Tools DynDNS requiring user/password (is that secure)?

[stormy]

On Tomato/firmware (sorry for the comparison) one only needs to enter a TOKEN for freeDNS service (afraid.org), but in opnsense, it seems user & password are required..

Is that secure? I'm assuming you post the request as https..   

and to get token implemented, is that by opening a git issue? or some other way.

Highly useful if you need to reach your boxes remotely.

Stormy..

[stormy]

oh, turns out this "password" field is not really the freedns password.  it's the TOKEN, see:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=4374.0

so this is OK.

Only "room for improvement" is to add a "last successful update" field, b/c it's impossible to know when it was updated from the UI unless looking in the logs.

[franco]

Hey stormy,

The modelling of the DynDNS GUI is a bit inflexible -- it merely presents static fields used for different terminology.

This is somewhat queued up for a rewrite, but not before we can move it from the standard installation to a plugin.


Cheers,
Franco