Suggestion about new LAN DDNS feature

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1

I just see myQNAPcloud introduced a new LAN DDNS feature and I’m quite excited. My LAN environment has some layer-3 routers so mDNS doesn’t work, and the LAN DDNS will allow me to stick to hostnames even in LAN environment.

However there are still some drawbacks:

  1. I can’t enable LAN DDNS but disable WAN DDNS. Once I disable WAN DDNS, the entire hybrid DDNS feature is off. I think a recent security standard is not to expose NAS on WAN, so it’s a natural thought to allow LAN connection only.
  2. Let’s Encrypt doesn’t work with my LAN-only setup. I think in theory Let’s Encrypt supports DNS-01 challange type which works without needing a WAN HTTP access, but my try to install Let’s Encrypt certificate just fails.

If the 2 things are fixed, the LAN DDNS feature will be much more useful.

2

Why not just put host names in your DNS server?

3

LAN IPv6 is same as the WAN IPv6 which is dependent on the prefix provided by ISP. So it’s dynamic.

4

UGH. IPV6. I keep forgetting about that and that it’s actually being used by some people! :smiley:

5

Thanks for taking the time to share this suggestion — I’ll forward it to our internal team so they can evaluate it.