How to use Custom GET with Dynamic DNS service (for OpenDNS)

[thowe]

I am failing to set the IP addresses at OpenDNS for my two WAN interfaces using the new Dynamic DNS service of OPNsense. With the legacy Dynamic DNS service this worked without any problems.

OpenDNS Background: You can set the IP addresses of your WAN addresses in OpenDNS so that you can see which DNS requests were received via which WAN interface.

You can set the IPs using the following http GET call via the respective WAN interface:

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https://updates.opendns.com/nic/update?hostname=Your_OpenDNS_network_label


I have tried to configure a custom GET request, but this does not work and leads to error entries in the log. Details in the attached screenshots. The cropped "Server" field is set to "https://updates.opendns.com/nic/update?hostname=MyWAN1"

Does anybody have an idea how to configure my scenario? Or should I implement curl based script as a cron job as an alternative?

[dyason]

Very late update but came across the post and configured it myself with the below settings:

Service: custom
Protocol: DynDNS 2
Server: updates.opendns.com
Username: <user>
Password: <pass>
Hostname: <Your network label from OpenDNS>

[thowe]

Thanks. I will give that a try.  :)