How to disable DDNS registration of Tunnel clients

03/26/2020 2 12066

DESCRIPTION:
How to disable DDNS registration of Tunnel clients

RESOLUTION:

Feature/Application:

In order to disable DDNS registration of Tunnel clients, you must be running 10.0.2 or later with clt-hotfix-10_0_2-002 and pform-hotfix-10_0_2-004 or newer.

Procedure:

Enabling filtering of DDNS requests for Tunnel Agents

Step 1: Install clt-hotfix-10_0_2-002 and pform-hotfix-10_0_2-004 or newer.

Step 2: Create the file /root/extensions.conf, put the following contents in it:

# Disable DDNS in Tunnel Agents (ODT/CT) -- 10/7/2009

EVPN_Disable_DDNS=1

Step 3: Restart EVPN (this will force users to go through a tunnel resumption) with the following command:

/etc/init.d/evpn restart

Verifying DDNS filtering is enabled at the client

Step 1: Ensure your tunnel client is upgraded to the newest version from the client hotfix (version number should be 10.0.2-046 or later).

Step 2: Start up a debug ngutil command prompt window on the client PC:

ngutil -reset -poll -severity=debug > ngutil.txt

Step 3: Launch tunnel, and connect to the appliance.

Step 4: Go back to the ngutil window and press ctrl+c.

Step 5: Open the ngutil.txt in notepad, and search for the string 'ddns'. You should see a log entry like this if filtering DDNS is enabled:

15:35:24.354 I ClientConfig: DisableDDNS 1 And one that looks like this if filtering DDNS is disabled:

15:35:24.354 I ClientConfig: DisableDDNS 0

Disabling filtering of DDNS requests for Tunnel Agents

Step 1: Comment out the line 'EVPN_Disable_DDNS=1' in /root/extensions.conf so it looks like this:

# Disable DDNS in Tunnel Agents (ODT/CT) -- 10/7/2009

#EVPN_Disable_DDNS=1

Step 2: Restart EVPN (this will force users to go through a tunnel resumption):

/etc/init.d/evpn restart

Behaviour with future versions and migration

• All future versions > 10.0.2 will have the ability to automatically migrate this config file and associated settings forward. You should only have to modify /root/extensions.conf once, in which case it will be enabled on future upgrades (10.0.3, 10.5.0, etc.).
• Upcoming releases (10.5.0) will also include the ability to modify the extensions.conf file via AMC.

Tracking ID: 83678