Create home VPN with Apple Xserve and AE?

KnightsSoccer82 said:

Hey guys,

I'm new here. But am having serious issues establishing a VPN

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What have you tried, and what are the issues you're having?

KnightsSoccer82 said:

I got it all setup correctly now, actually! However, my ISP doesn't allow static IP addresses, so do you know of any best (free) way to setup a dynamic IP address for VPN? VPN works correctly for me now locally!

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I've gone from Dyn to No-IP DDNS and both work as advertised. Dyn just dropped their free option.
You will need a DDNS updater inside your network to let DDNS service know of any changes to your external IP address. AEBS is supposed to do that as well, but I never bothered to set it up. I found it easier to enable DDNS updater on my NAS box.
So at the end of the day, I configure my VPN client with my No-IP hostname instead of IP address, that's what you're after.

priitv8 said:

AEBS is supposed to do that as well, but I never bothered to set it up.

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Airport devices are not able update a dynamic DNS service's IP address. While they have the option for it, it only works for wide area Bonjour setups. Those can be very tricky to setup correctly and are often not supported by dynamic DNS services.

Your Xserve should able to run the IP updater from NO-IP, that will solve the dynamic IP problem.

Intell said:

Airport devices are not able update a dynamic DNS service's IP address. While they have the option for it, it only works for wide area Bonjour setups. Those can be very tricky to setup correctly and are often not supported by dynamic DNS services.

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I had the impression that DYN had it right.
I read the part titled "Setup Your Dynamic Global Hostname in the AirPort or Time Capsule" here:
http://dyn.com/support/airport-time-capsule-with-dynamic-dns/
The authentication method seems to be not the common user-password one. But I never came to try it out.