Unifi gateway tips and tricks

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Unify with dy.fi Dynamic DNS: Quick notes

Setting up dy.fi needs some weird looking configuration.

Unifi uses Inadyn dynamic DNS service.
GUI creates config file /run/ddns-eth0-inadyn.conf
To run update once with debug, see "ps aux | grep inadyn" and run the same parameters PLUS "-1 -l debug --foreground"

	/usr/sbin/inadyn -n -s -C -f /run/ddns-eth0-inadyn.conf -b eth0 -1 -l debug --foreground

To add 5 day forced update interval, add parameter forced-update to the config file

	#
	# Generated automatically by ubios-udapi-server
	#
	iface = eth0
	forced-update = "432000"
	
	custom www.dy.fi:1 {
		(server settings here)
	}

After this, do not edit cofiguration from GUI!
Restart inadyn with

	systemctl restart inadyn.service

or kill the process. If you kill the process, Watchdog will try to restart it every 20 s.
You may monitor this by "tail -f /var/log/messages"

	UCG-Ultra ubios-udapi-server[1002]: process: Watchdog is restarting throttled process ddns-eth0

See more config file parameters here man.freebsd.org