Disabling Automatic Registration of Dynamic DNS

[Jay10Bhakta]

What are the advantages/disadvantages for Disabling Automatic Registration of Dynamic DNS?

[DarrenOC]

Hi @Jay10Bhakta 

Assume you have read this for starters:

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Other_Topics

There’s a topic for DDNS.

Apologies but the other link was being corrupted when pasted here

[Jay10Bhakta]

I clicked on the link, and it says the page could not be found.

[DarrenOC]

Hi @Jay10Bhakta , try again

[Jay10Bhakta]

Thanks for the information, but from the documentation I don't see what the disadvantage is, unless I missed it. I have client who wants information on disabling it and I don't want to give the wrong information.

[PhilipDAth]

Many people won't need DDNS at all.

DDNS is only needed if you have something that needs to connect inbound to your site and you have a dynamic IP address.  The DDNS entry will always return the current IP address assigned to the MX.

For example, if you MX has a dynamic IP address and you want to use client VPN you would want to get your clients to connect to the DDNS name.