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Description
This article provides a basic guide to configure a third party DDNS service in FortiGate devices. This article assumes a DDNS service contract is already active and all the parameters from the third party DDNS service are available.

Scope
FortiOS 5.0 and above

Solution
Execute the following commands in a CLI session:
config system ddns
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    set monitor-interface "wan1"
    set ddns-server ddnsservice.example
    set ddns-domain "hostname"
    set ddns-username "username"
    set ddns-password password

where:

"wan1" is the WAN interface bound to the DDNS service.

ddnsservice.com is the name of the DDNS server from the DDNS service provider.

"hostname" is the name assigned to the FortiGate device.

"username" is the user account for the DDNS service provided by the DDNS service provider.

password is the password of the account for the DDNS service provided by the DDNS service provider.

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