Register
Register for a Dynster.net account here. Once you have successfully completed the registration process, we will send you a confirmation link by email. If you don’t see the e-mail in your inbox, be sure to check your spam or junk mail filter. All e-mail correspondence will be sent from the support@dynster.net address. You MUST click the link to complete the confirmation process before your account is active and ready for use. Please be aware that accounts not confirmed within 48 hours of creation are automatically removed and must be recreated.
Setting up a host
Login to your account. Click Services on the top right. Click Add New Host. Type in your desired hostname. Click “Your current location’s IP address is” to use your current IP as your initial IP. Click the Add button to save your new hostmame.
Please note that resolution of new hostnames may take upto 35 minutes to initally propagate all our DNS clusters for the first time. However, any subsequent updates will not experience propagation delays.
GNU based operating systems such as CentOs or Ubuntu may use a command such as:
wget --http-user="<YOUR_USERNAME>" --http-passwd="<YOUR_PASSWORD>" --post-data "DOMAIN=<YOUR_HOSTNAME>" http://update.dynster.net
We have developed this code for your convenience.
Microsoft Windows users may download wget binaries.
If you use pfSense, we suggest installing cron using the package manager then scheduling a new job to use a command such as:
fetch -o /dev/null http://<YOUR_USERNAME>:<YOUR_PASSWORD>@update.dynster.net/index.php\?\DOMAIN=<YOUR_HOSTNAME>
In the near future, we hope to have our services integrated directly into the pfSense Dynamic DNS service. The above suggested method is a workaround until that has been completed. Be aware that the above code should work with standard FreeBSD and FreeBSD-like operating systems. However, it has NOT been tested.
If you choose you can run these commands using cron or as a Microsoft Windows scheduled task. We recommend four times per hour.