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Report IPv6 using DDNS

Hey guys,

new user here 馃槉. I have a problem and I hope you can help me with this. So my router uses a DS lite tunnel to connect to the Internet and I don't have a dedicated IPv4. This one changes when I reconnect to the Internet.

Since I have to report my IP to NextDNS and I want my router to do this automatically, I wanted to use the DDNS feature with my dynamic domain. However, NextDNS only accepts IPv4 addresses and my router doesn't report these, so it can't update my A record, only the AAAA record of my domain.

Therefore, my question is: how can I use the DDNS feature with the IPv6 reported by my router?

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    • R_P_M
    • 10 days ago
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    If you use the IPv6 DNS addresses from your NextDNS profile setup, you do not need to link an IPv4 address for them to work.

    As for DDNS, there are options to run an updater on a device connected to your network.

      • simpty
      • 9 days ago
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      I mean I don't have to use DDNS, but I thought that NextDNS must match my IP with my account to block ads and so on, so this would be the best way to inform NextDNS about my IP. And when using DDNS, they only want an IPv4. 

      I've set up all of NextDNS' IPv4 and IPv6 addresses I was shown in my profile in my router.

      I also enabled DNS over TLS (DoT) in my router settings. This works well as far as I know from the NextDNS Analytics dashboard (100% encrypted DNS queries).

    • simpty
    • 9 days ago
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    Actually, we can close this thread, I found my solution. Since I'm using DNS over TLS, I'm already reporting my ID to NextDNS, so I don't need DDNS and a dedicated IPv4 or something similar. My setup already works.

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