Noob cant' get DDNS to work

[Tom Crable]

I have been totally unsuccessful getting DDNS to work with my ASUS RT-AC68U wireless router. My ultimate goal is to setup AICloud so that I can use the Wake on LAN feature so I can access my Desktop computer to stream media when I am traveling out of the country. I already have the Tivo, Plex and PlayOn apps successfully accessing my desktop from either a 3g / 4g or external wireless connection from my Android Phone and laptop so I know that the external network path to my home devices exists. The only issue is that when my desktop goes to sleep, Plex and PlayOn media servers are unavailable.

I am using a Motorola Surfboard SB6141 modem connected directly to my ASUS router. I don't believe that any "bridging" should be required for that modem. I have ethernet to my desktop, TIVO box and Roku box. Mini Tivos are wired via MOCA. I am using WOW for internet and cable, all of the equipment is mine.

The settings I am using on the router are pretty vanilla so I am hoping there is just a switch I missed somewhere or another. I enabled WAN access to the router and for the time being I am just authenticating with HTTP. I set up the DDNS using the ASUS DNS and it creates and registers the DDNS URL. However I am unable to access that url from anywhere. I've also tried to use the IP address associated the the asuscomm URL and no luck there either.

I apologize in advance if this has already been addressed elsewhere. I tried to read the DDNS and AICloud posts here and also checked the ASUS corporate forums but didn't find anything that works.

Thanks

 

[Zirescu]

Did you verify that IP address that DDNS entry is giving you is a public IP address and not a private network address?

 

[Tom Crable]

Did you verify that IP address that DDNS entry is giving you is a public IP address and not a private network address?

Sorry for the slow reply. I didn't have the notification set up properly. I've tried every IP address associated with the router. I think I am just going to reset everything back to factory settings and start from scratch.