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Using dynamic DNS at SRX with non DYNDNS service provider

When placing a network equipment without a static IP address, the best way to remote access to the device is by using the dynamic DNS service. Juniper has import this feature into their network security products such as Netscreen ScreenOS and JunOS SRX.
I recently has replaced my SSG with the SRX, and am having trouble updating the DDNS record with the built-in DDNS feature. What happen is SRX only offer 2 options of “dyndns.org or ddo.jp”, any service other than these 2 are out of questions. Since I am using HE.net for DDNS, that does not do my any good.
 
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So my work around is: to map the dyndns domain name to a HE.net dns server IP address with the following command. The command below is to bind the members.dyndns.org (the dyndns.org DDNS service domain name) to the IP address of 184.105.242.3 (the DDNS service domain name). Continue reading