How to Setup dyndns on a Netopia Router

Unfortunately, Netopia routers of the 33xx series do not offer to configure using a dyndns.org account from within the Web interface. However, there is the possibility to configure it directly by connecting to the device using telnet. First you have to setup an account with dyndns.org. There you select a username, a password, and a host.name. You will need this information to configure the Netopia router. You start by connecting to the router through telnet by entering

telnet 192.168.1.1

into a command prompt. If you are connected, you will enter the dyndns setting with the following commands:

config
set dynamic-dns option dyndns.org
set dynamic-dns ddns-host-name host.name
set dynamic-dns ddns-user-name username
set dynamic-dns ddns-user-password password
save
quit

Note that the host.name, username, and password are the values chosen when registering at dyndns.org as explained before. Now you reboot the router (preferably through the Web interface) and wait a minute. Then you can verify that the setup has been successful by either pinging your host.name or in the Web interface of dyndns.org.

If you want to disable the dyndns updates from the router you can do so by entering the following commands after you connected through telnet:

config
set dynamic-dns option off
save
quit