Custom DDNS gives be Request Error! Please try again.

[Dixit]

I was using the Asus DDNS for awhile and never had much issues with the exception that Asus servers end up being down alot more than in the past.

So was looking around and noticed the CUSTOM option supports Google Domains and dynamic dns. So I setup a dynamic dns name on my private google domain like 1234.domain.com and it gave me the username/password. I used the script from the github https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Custom-DDNS

However when picking CUSTOM on the DDNS page, and then just putting the 1234.domain.com and leaving the 21days as Forced Refresh, it just sits there on "Applying Settings...." for 5-10mins. Closed browser, reopened, now going to the DDNS tab gives me that "Request Error! Please try again", even with different browsers.

My script is "ddns-start" and sitting in the jffs/scripts folder along with my firewall-start that is there already.

Cant figure out why I cant get this to work. Tried this on two different routers, tried it on an AC66U and AC68U, same issue, even two different DDNS names on my domain (which has different logins).

Or am I simply mis-understanding this in that you dont need to set the "Server" setting to Custom under the DDNS tab if I have the script there anyways?

Dixit

 

[Dixit]

Alright I figured this out. Turns out the issue was due to WinSCP. I used that initially to login to the Asus router (both exampled) and created the ddns-start file and added the script language in there and edited it from there. I did this in the past when I did the firewall-start script and worked fine.

But I found out something was wrong with the file itself somehow. I tried to execute the file and kept telling me the file not found. I deleted the file in SSH, and created it manually inside SSH using "vi ddns-start" and pasted the script in there and then setting it to chmod 755 and it worked. Didn't get a request error either, got a registration successful!

So something must have been weird in the WinSCP in the way it created that file.

Dixit