1. What is DDNS

DNS: Domain Name System

To translate the numerical IP addresses like 208.80.152.201 into domain names, which can be easily memorized by humans like “milesight.org”.

DDNS: Dynamic DNS or DynDNS

To translate changing IP addresses into a constant domain name. This is used to provide a persistent domain name for a resource that may change address on the network.DDNS provider: ddns.milesight.com, dyndns.org, freedns.afraid.org, www.no-ip.com, www.zoneedit.com

2. How to Set DDNS

So far, Milesight cameras can support 5 DDNS servers,as shown in Figure 1:

Figure 1  DDNS Server

Before using DDNS, you need to map HTTP Port and RTSP Port to External HTTP Port and External RTSP Port firstly. If you need to use the playback function via DDNS, you also need to map Playback Port to External Playback Port.

For more information about port forwarding, please refer to the troubleshooting:

7.Milesight-Troubleshooting-IPC-Port Forwarding-For-Winbox

26.Milesight-Troubleshooting-IPC-Port Forwarding-For-TP_Link

It is recommended to enable UPnP, which will automatically map HTTP Port, RTSP Port and Playback Port to External HTTP Port, External RTSP Port and External Playback Port.

Note: If you want to use UPnP, the router needs to support UPnP function firstly.

Figure 2  UPnP

1) You can choose “ddns.milesight.com” as provider for DDNS

Step1: Enable DDNS, choose “ddns.milesight.com” as the provider, fill in the port mapped in advance.

Step2: Click“Save” to see the blue “DDNS is running” on the top as shown in picture:

Figure 3

Step3: When the“DDNS is running”, you can access the camera by DDNS URL.

Figure 4

Note: If your camera’s firmware version is 61.8.0.4-r5 or earlier, MPlayer Plugin does not support playing Live View stream via Milesight DDNS URL, so the DDNS interface will not show the "ddns.milesight.com" option if MPlayer Plugin is installed.

Figure 5

If your camera’s firmware version is 61.8.0.4-r6 or above, the "ddns.milesight.com" option will be shown on DDNS interface. 

Figure 6

But when you use this option, please do not open the same DDNS web page repeatedly on the same browser, otherwise the image of live view will be misaligned. As shown below:

Figure 7

2) You also can choose the third party as provider for DDNS

Take freedns.afraid.org as an example:

Step1: Log in http://freedns.afraid.org.

Step2: Click on the “Sigh Up!”.

Figure 8  Sign Up

Step3: Create a new account under server.

Figure 9  Add a new account

Step4: After registering successfully, please activate the Email and then choose to add a new subdomain.

Figure 10  Add a new subdomain

Step5: After adding a subdomain, please check the HASH for this account. Click on "Dynamic DNS” option, window will pop up as below:

Figure 11  Direct URL

Step6: Click on the “Directly URL”.

You can check HASH from the following address:

“https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?em1zb2cyTnllclZuU3p3Z1NvZ2tNNnJJOjIwMzk1NTY3”

Figure 12  HASH

Step7: Enter the information on the web, and the status would show like this: 

Figure 13  DDNS Status

Figure 11  Log in successfully