ddclient-support — Support for ddclient

Re: [Ddclient-support] Fwd: use=web, reliable?

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 09/06/14 01:02, Alexander CSpa wrote:
> Dear all, Dear Wimpunk,
> 2014-09-02 7:52 GMT+02:00, wimpunk <wi...@us...>:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> First you should subscripe to the list if you want to see the answers on
>> your question.  I had to add you message manually to the list.
>>
> Thank you! Did it.
> 
>> On 08/27/14 23:20, Alexander CSpa wrote:
>>> Hello to all,
>>> Hello Wimpunk,
>>>               I would like to ask how reliable the option "use=web" is.
>>>
>>>               I am asking you this because I only found two sites wich
>>> display the current ip adress of the cient.
>>>
>>>              So if myip.dnsdynamic.org and ip.changeip.com are down (it
>>> could happen) and there is no local method for viewing the ip... ddclient
>>> cannot update himself!
>>
>> I used to use checkip.dyndns.org which resolves in multiple addresses.
>> It makes the system more reliable although ddclient does not retry if
>> can't reach it.  He just retries the next time.
>>
> 
> Actually you answered my question. :-)
> 

Good to know. :-)

> But i would like to ask if it would be possible to use a list of web
> services
> (Something in the conf. like: use=web, web=site1, site2 and it tries
> the first and if it does not work the second and so on.Alternative:
> if=web, web=site1 if=web, web=site2)
>

If someone want to implement it and sends me a patch, I will probably
add it to ddclient but currently I don't feel the need for such change
so I will not write it myself.

> This is important if someone is looking at trying to have "always" a
> client connected.

I still believe it's better to use your modem to get the IP address of
your WAN connection.  You can check it as fast as the firmware allows.

> 
> Maybe that an improper solution would be to duplicate the conf. file
> in the same file and to add two different web=... .
> 

You can try but I don't think ddclient will be very happy to see that.
At least it will result in a duplicate update.

> 
> Thank You again!
> 

Re: [Ddclient-support] Fwd: use=web, reliable?

[Timothy M. <gay...@al...>]

Alexander CSpa wrote:

>> I used to use checkip.dyndns.org which resolves in multiple addresses.

Why did you change?
I use checkip.dyndns.org but I did wonder if sooner or later
it was going to check if the caller was registered with dyndns .
(I used to be, but changed to noip when dyndns started charging.)

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

[Ddclient-support] Fwd: use=web, reliable?

[Alexander C. <ale...@gm...>]

Dear all, Dear Wimpunk,
2014-09-02 7:52 GMT+02:00, wimpunk <wi...@us...>:
> Hi Alex,
>
> First you should subscripe to the list if you want to see the answers on
> your question.  I had to add you message manually to the list.
>
Thank you! Did it.

> On 08/27/14 23:20, Alexander CSpa wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>> Hello Wimpunk,
>>               I would like to ask how reliable the option "use=web" is.
>>
>>               I am asking you this because I only found two sites wich
>> display the current ip adress of the cient.
>>
>>              So if myip.dnsdynamic.org and ip.changeip.com are down (it
>> could happen) and there is no local method for viewing the ip... ddclient
>> cannot update himself!
>
> I used to use checkip.dyndns.org which resolves in multiple addresses.
> It makes the system more reliable although ddclient does not retry if
> can't reach it.  He just retries the next time.
>

Actually you answered my question. :-)

But i would like to ask if it would be possible to use a list of web
services
(Something in the conf. like: use=web, web=site1, site2 and it tries
the first and if it does not work the second and so on.Alternative:
if=web, web=site1 if=web, web=site2)

This is important if someone is looking at trying to have "always" a
client connected.

Maybe that an improper solution would be to duplicate the conf. file
in the same file and to add two different web=... .


Thank You again!

Best Regards, Alex

Re: [Ddclient-support] use=web, reliable?

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

Hi Alex,

First you should subscripe to the list if you want to see the answers on
your question.  I had to add you message manually to the list.

On 08/27/14 23:20, Alexander CSpa wrote:
> Hello to all,
> Hello Wimpunk,
>               I would like to ask how reliable the option "use=web" is.
> 
>               I am asking you this because I only found two sites wich
> display the current ip adress of the cient.
> 
>              So if myip.dnsdynamic.org and ip.changeip.com are down (it
> could happen) and there is no local method for viewing the ip... ddclient
> cannot update himself!

I used to use checkip.dyndns.org which resolves in multiple addresses.
It makes the system more reliable although ddclient does not retry if
can't reach it.  He just retries the next time.

> 
>              So i would like to ask if it would be possible to extract the
> information of a webpage saving only the ip (v4 or v6) in ddclientso that
> also other pages as http://checkip.dns.he.net/ could work.

Sorry but I don't get what you want to tell here.

> 
>             I would like to say "thank you" in advance and escuses for my
> bad english.
> 
> 
> Hoping hearing from you,
> 
> Alex

Regards,

wimpunk.

[Ddclient-support] use=web, reliable?

[Alexander C. <ale...@gm...>]

Hello to all,
Hello Wimpunk,
              I would like to ask how reliable the option "use=web" is.

              I am asking you this because I only found two sites wich
display the current ip adress of the cient.

             So if myip.dnsdynamic.org and ip.changeip.com are down (it
could happen) and there is no local method for viewing the ip... ddclient
cannot update himself!

             So i would like to ask if it would be possible to extract the
information of a webpage saving only the ip (v4 or v6) in ddclientso that
also other pages as http://checkip.dns.he.net/ could work.

            I would like to say "thank you" in advance and escuses for my
bad english.


Hoping hearing from you,

Alex

Re: [Ddclient-support] Few additions/suggestions

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 08/07/14 06:03, Gregor wrote:
> Hello there,
> I am not sure how to communicate a few things I changed up for DDClient to work on my setup, so I am sending an e-mail to this list. Additions are very small indeed, and done on 3.8.1, so new version may be different a bit. I am running openSuse 13.1. I apologize for not creating a patch, I think that would be an overkill :)
> 

You could start subscribing to the list.

> 
> First off, I have a linksys router running DD-WRT firmware, and since there was no explicit support that I could find, I modified ddclient directly to add the following in the devices array:
> ==========================================
> 
>     'dd-wrt' => {
>         'name' => 'DD-WRT Firmware routers',
>         'url' => '/',
>         'skip' => 'IP: ',
>     },
> =========================================

Supply it as a patch to the latest version.

> 
> The landing page of the router is a public info page, and contains wan IP, behind the only instance of string "IP: xxx...". I have tested this on my router only, so you may want to confirm this with some other DD-WRT users. In order to use this, the ddclient.conf file simply specifies:
> ===============================
> use=dd-wrt, fw=172.21.1.254:80
> ===============================
> 
> 
> Second, zoneedit.com changed their update interface, and while changes are already accounted for in 3.8.1 of ddclient, "https" is not. ZoneEdit enabled https only, so URL needs to specify this as well. For my purpose, I have updated "nic_zoneedit1_update" function, and have changed http to https in the following code:
> =========================
>     my $url = '';
>     $url  .= "https://$config{$h}{'server'}/auth/dynamic.html";
>     $url  .= "?host=$hosts";
>     $url  .= "&dnsto=$ip"   if $ip;
>     $url  .= "&zone=$config{$h}{'zone'}" if defined $config{$h}{'zone'};
> =========================
> 

Did you tried this with the latest version from subversion? Or from git
on github?

> I am sure this is not the best solution, but forcing ssl use through ddclient.conf param "ssl=yes" did not work for me, and I did not really want to spend time debugging it :)
> 
> That is all I have, thanks for your time, and thank you for creating and maintaining an excellent dynamic update client!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gregor Tamindzija
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[Ddclient-support] Few additions/suggestions

[Gregor <mas...@ya...>]

Hello there,
I am not sure how to communicate a few things I changed up for DDClient to work on my setup, so I am sending an e-mail to this list. Additions are very small indeed, and done on 3.8.1, so new version may be different a bit. I am running openSuse 13.1. I apologize for not creating a patch, I think that would be an overkill :)


First off, I have a linksys router running DD-WRT firmware, and since there was no explicit support that I could find, I modified ddclient directly to add the following in the devices array:
==========================================

    'dd-wrt' => {
        'name' => 'DD-WRT Firmware routers',
        'url' => '/',
        'skip' => 'IP: ',
    },
=========================================

The landing page of the router is a public info page, and contains wan IP, behind the only instance of string "IP: xxx...". I have tested this on my router only, so you may want to confirm this with some other DD-WRT users. In order to use this, the ddclient.conf file simply specifies:
===============================
use=dd-wrt, fw=172.21.1.254:80
===============================


Second, zoneedit.com changed their update interface, and while changes are already accounted for in 3.8.1 of ddclient, "https" is not. ZoneEdit enabled https only, so URL needs to specify this as well. For my purpose, I have updated "nic_zoneedit1_update" function, and have changed http to https in the following code:
=========================
    my $url = '';
    $url  .= "https://$config{$h}{'server'}/auth/dynamic.html";
    $url  .= "?host=$hosts";
    $url  .= "&dnsto=$ip"   if $ip;
    $url  .= "&zone=$config{$h}{'zone'}" if defined $config{$h}{'zone'};
=========================

I am sure this is not the best solution, but forcing ssl use through ddclient.conf param "ssl=yes" did not work for me, and I did not really want to spend time debugging it :)

That is all I have, thanks for your time, and thank you for creating and maintaining an excellent dynamic update client!

Cheers,

Gregor Tamindzija

Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email

[Kyle J. M. <ma...@gm...>]

I also wanted notifications, but only for failures to connect to the  
IP checking website and anytime the IP address was updated (either a  
forced no-change 25 day update or an actual change).

So I'm running with the patch you can find here:

   https://gist.github.com/mackyle/e11f34a92b53b07c8caf

And then in my ddclient.conf I do NOT set the "mail" variable, but I  
DO set the mail-failure variable and I get the updates I want without  
the endless other emails that I do not.

Kyle

On Jul 24, 2014, at 19:48, <nu...@ea...> <nu...@ea... 
 > wrote:
> Hmmm, not having any luck stopping all emails from being sent in  
> favor of
> getting just those when the WAN IP address changes.
>
> And now it appears ddclient is failing to sense the noip.com IP  
> address is
> different from the web IP address it's detecting.  :-|
>
> I manually changed the noip.com FQND IP address in their web site to  
> verify
> that ddclient will change it, but no go.  Oddly, ddclient query and  
> IP check
> displays the proper WAN IP address, but it's not seeing it's  
> different than
> the IP address that noip.com has and shows up when performing a ping  
> -a
> fdqn.
>
> Is there *any* way for the developer to join me in resolving these  
> issues.
> It's holding up deployment.  I'm completely willing to pay/donate/ 
> shout
> accolades from top of mountains. :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wimpunk [mailto:wi...@us...]
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 12:22 AM
> To: ddc...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email
>
> On 07/20/14 23:42, nu...@ea... wrote:
>> Thanks for the terrific program!  It's a wonderful help!
>>
>> I'm trying to get ddclient to send an email when the IP address  
>> changes.
>> Testing shows that -debug and -verbose must be in the OPTIONS
>> statement, but -noquiet and -quiet have no effect on whether or not  
>> an
>> email gets sent.
>>
>> Is there a proper way to configure ddclient options so email is sent
>> only when the IP address changes?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>>
>
> If you use the mail=yo...@em... it should work if you have a local  
> smtp
> server configured.
>
> Regards,
>
> wimpunk.

Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

Hi,

To get yet your mail working, you could try to send an email using the
ddclient post-script option.  After my ddclient finishes updating my
favorite service, I do some extra tricks using the postscript and the
script mails me the result.

On 07/25/14 04:48, nu...@ea... wrote:
> Hmmm, not having any luck stopping all emails from being sent in favor of
> getting just those when the WAN IP address changes.

Looking at the code of ddclient it sends all the updates to mail adres,
and if the update failed, it sends the updates to the mail-failure
address.  If you really only want a messages when updating was done, you
should use a post-script.  Ddclient currently has no option to send only
correct updates.  Maybe I should add that to the documentation.

If you want a feature sending you a mail when ddclient updates, you
could try to find a perl developer to implement this feature.

> 
> And now it appears ddclient is failing to sense the noip.com IP address is
> different from the web IP address it's detecting.  :-|
> 
> I manually changed the noip.com FQND IP address in their web site to verify
> that ddclient will change it, but no go.  Oddly, ddclient query and IP check
> displays the proper WAN IP address, but it's not seeing it's different than
> the IP address that noip.com has and shows up when performing a ping -a
> fdqn.

No, that's not the way ddclient works.  Ddclient verifies the ip with
the one in its own cache before it decides to update.
> 
> Is there *any* way for the developer to join me in resolving these issues.
> It's holding up deployment.  I'm completely willing to pay/donate/shout
> accolades from top of mountains. :-)
> 

If you find any perl developer, he can submit new patches if needed.
I'm trying to support ddclient with my best effort, and from time to
time, others in this list do the same.

Btw, I hope you're using the paid version of no-ip because they fail big
time when you're using an automatic updater on their free service.

If you want support about updating no-ip you could try a new tread about
your problem and add no-ip to the subject.  As far as I know, there is a
no-ip developer following the list for this kind of issues.

> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wimpunk [mailto:wi...@us...] 
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 12:22 AM
> To: ddc...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email
> 
> On 07/20/14 23:42, nu...@ea... wrote:
>> Thanks for the terrific program!  It's a wonderful help!
>>
>> I'm trying to get ddclient to send an email when the IP address changes.
>> Testing shows that -debug and -verbose must be in the OPTIONS 
>> statement, but -noquiet and -quiet have no effect on whether or not an
> email gets sent.
>>
>> Is there a proper way to configure ddclient options so email is sent 
>> only when the IP address changes?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>>
> 
> If you use the mail=yo...@em... it should work if you have a local smtp
> server configured.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> wimpunk.
> 
> 

Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email

[<nu...@ea...>]

Hmmm, not having any luck stopping all emails from being sent in favor of
getting just those when the WAN IP address changes.

And now it appears ddclient is failing to sense the noip.com IP address is
different from the web IP address it's detecting.  :-|

I manually changed the noip.com FQND IP address in their web site to verify
that ddclient will change it, but no go.  Oddly, ddclient query and IP check
displays the proper WAN IP address, but it's not seeing it's different than
the IP address that noip.com has and shows up when performing a ping -a
fdqn.

Is there *any* way for the developer to join me in resolving these issues.
It's holding up deployment.  I'm completely willing to pay/donate/shout
accolades from top of mountains. :-)

Thanks!



-----Original Message-----
From: wimpunk [mailto:wi...@us...] 
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 12:22 AM
To: ddc...@li...
Subject: Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email

On 07/20/14 23:42, nu...@ea... wrote:
> Thanks for the terrific program!  It's a wonderful help!
> 
> I'm trying to get ddclient to send an email when the IP address changes.
> Testing shows that -debug and -verbose must be in the OPTIONS 
> statement, but -noquiet and -quiet have no effect on whether or not an
email gets sent.
> 
> Is there a proper way to configure ddclient options so email is sent 
> only when the IP address changes?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 

If you use the mail=yo...@em... it should work if you have a local smtp
server configured.

Regards,

wimpunk.


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Re: [Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 07/20/14 23:42, nu...@ea... wrote:
> Thanks for the terrific program!  It's a wonderful help!
> 
> I'm trying to get ddclient to send an email when the IP address changes.
> Testing shows that -debug and -verbose must be in the OPTIONS statement, but
> -noquiet and -quiet have no effect on whether or not an email gets sent.
> 
> Is there a proper way to configure ddclient options so email is sent only
> when the IP address changes?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 

If you use the mail=yo...@em... it should work if you have a local
smtp server configured.

Regards,

wimpunk.

[Ddclient-support] -{no}quiet send email

[<nu...@ea...>]

Thanks for the terrific program!  It's a wonderful help!

I'm trying to get ddclient to send an email when the IP address changes.
Testing shows that -debug and -verbose must be in the OPTIONS statement, but
-noquiet and -quiet have no effect on whether or not an email gets sent.

Is there a proper way to configure ddclient options so email is sent only
when the IP address changes?

Thanks again!

Re: [Ddclient-support] CentOS-7 ddclient

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 07/19/14 12:43, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there a version of ddclient for CentOS-7?
> Or will the CentOS-6.5 version work OK under CentOS-7?
> 

I don't have any experience with centos but if it has perl, it should work.

Regards,

wimpunk.

[Ddclient-support] CentOS-7 ddclient

[Timothy M. <gay...@al...>]

Is there a version of ddclient for CentOS-7?
Or will the CentOS-6.5 version work OK under CentOS-7?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Re: [Ddclient-support] SF vs Github: duplication, confusion

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 06/25/14 11:00, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Am I the only one thouroughly confused by the duplication of web
> content, ticketing system, and source code, on both SF.net and
> Github?  Is there a specific reason for that?  I would suggest to
> fully do the move to Github and make the SF.net website just
> point to Github (keeping only the mailing list on SF.net).  Or
> the other way around, if you prefer old-school.  But have just
> one place people have to monitor and look at when they want to
> contribute to ddclient or figure out how to submit patches.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 

Hi,

First, as you probably noticed, this list is pretty calm.  There used to
be a developer mailing list but because they both weren't used very
much, I decided to only use the support mailing list.

I think there were two reasons why I started using github for keeping
the code.  It has a very easy way to create pull requests and I
discovered a few repositories out there which were based on ddclient but
were different imports.

I've been thinking of moving completely to github because sf.net
announced the ending of the trac environment.  Fortunately they didn't
closed the service that fast.  Sf created a way to move to their allura
environment which kept the history still accessible.  That must have
been the moment I decided to stay on sf.net.

Some people just doesn't like the fact they have to register on sf.net
to use it and ratter create pull requests on github.  Although maybe I
could better switch to git on sf.net, I currently don't have any
problems with maintaining them both.

Kind regards,

wimpunk.

Re: [Ddclient-support] file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 1: program version mismatch; ignoring /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 06/26/14 23:28, Paul N. Pace wrote:
> I get the following error in syslog:
> 
> file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 1: program version mismatch;
> ignoring /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache
> 
> ddclient is properly updating the DDNS record.
> 
> I installed the Ubuntu repository version of ddclient (3.8.0) and then
> downloaded the 3.8.2 tar.gz and copied and pasted the contents of ddclient
> into the /usr/sbin/ddclient and only changed the location of ddclient.conf
> since it's different in Ubuntu from the tar.gz.
> 
> Not a big deal, but would be nice to make the warning go away.
> Alternatively, if someone knows of an up-to-date PPA, that would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Paul

It used to be an error and it's pretty useful to be sure the update
worked correctly.  You only get it warning once.

wimpunk.

[Ddclient-support] file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 1: program version mismatch; ignoring /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache

[Paul N. P. <pau...@gm...>]

I get the following error in syslog:

file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 1: program version mismatch;
ignoring /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache

ddclient is properly updating the DDNS record.

I installed the Ubuntu repository version of ddclient (3.8.0) and then
downloaded the 3.8.2 tar.gz and copied and pasted the contents of ddclient
into the /usr/sbin/ddclient and only changed the location of ddclient.conf
since it's different in Ubuntu from the tar.gz.

Not a big deal, but would be nice to make the warning go away.
Alternatively, if someone knows of an up-to-date PPA, that would be great.

Thanks,


Paul

[Ddclient-support] SF vs Github: duplication, confusion

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

Hi all,

Am I the only one thouroughly confused by the duplication of web
content, ticketing system, and source code, on both SF.net and
Github?  Is there a specific reason for that?  I would suggest to
fully do the move to Github and make the SF.net website just
point to Github (keeping only the mailing list on SF.net).  Or
the other way around, if you prefer old-school.  But have just
one place people have to monitor and look at when they want to
contribute to ddclient or figure out how to submit patches.

Just a thought.

-- 
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/

Re: [Ddclient-support] Add nsupdate(1) support

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-06-25:
> On 05/26/14 23:24, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> > wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-05-26:
> >> On 05/22/14 19:12, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> >>> wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-04-30:
> >>>> I got a pull request [1] on github but I can't decide if it is
> >>>> a good idea to add the service.  It would add support for
> >>>> nsupdate on ddclient.  Does anyone out there has any comments
> >>>> on this?
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] https://github.com/wimpunk/ddclient/pull/3
> >>>
> >>> Looks like either this list is dead or there are no strong
> >>> opinions on this.  If the problem is the lack of a testing
> >>> environment, I can provide test zones with dynamic update
> >>> capability to interested developers.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW, I had this patch in production at one site for three weeks
> >>> without issues so far.
> >>
> >> I'm just wondering. If someone has issues using it, can I
> >> forward the question to you?  If you support your patch, I'll
> >> merge your pull request.
> > 
> > Yes, I can support it on a «best effort» basis, feel free to
> > forward requests to me.  That will also motivate me to improve
> > the nsupdate specific documentation if there are too many «how do
> > I configure this» requests.
> > 
> > -Daniel
> > 
> 
> It looks like there's an issue with it:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/ddclient/bugs/71/
> 
> Can you comment on it?

Yes, will do, thanks for the heads up.

-- 
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/

Re: [Ddclient-support] Add nsupdate(1) support

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 05/26/14 23:24, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-05-26:
>> On 05/22/14 19:12, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
>>> wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-04-30:
>>>> I got a pull request [1] on github but I can't decide if it is
>>>> a good idea to add the service.  It would add support for
>>>> nsupdate on ddclient.  Does anyone out there has any comments
>>>> on this?
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/wimpunk/ddclient/pull/3
>>>
>>> Looks like either this list is dead or there are no strong
>>> opinions on this.  If the problem is the lack of a testing
>>> environment, I can provide test zones with dynamic update
>>> capability to interested developers.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I had this patch in production at one site for three weeks
>>> without issues so far.
>>
>> I'm just wondering. If someone has issues using it, can I
>> forward the question to you?  If you support your patch, I'll
>> merge your pull request.
> 
> Yes, I can support it on a «best effort» basis, feel free to
> forward requests to me.  That will also motivate me to improve
> the nsupdate specific documentation if there are too many «how do
> I configure this» requests.
> 
> -Daniel
> 

It looks like there's an issue with it:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ddclient/bugs/71/

Can you comment on it?

wimpunk.

Re: [Ddclient-support] Add nsupdate(1) support

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-05-26:
> On 05/22/14 19:12, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> > wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-04-30:
> >> I got a pull request [1] on github but I can't decide if it is
> >> a good idea to add the service.  It would add support for
> >> nsupdate on ddclient.  Does anyone out there has any comments
> >> on this?
> >>
> >> [1] https://github.com/wimpunk/ddclient/pull/3
> > 
> > Looks like either this list is dead or there are no strong
> > opinions on this.  If the problem is the lack of a testing
> > environment, I can provide test zones with dynamic update
> > capability to interested developers.
> > 
> > FWIW, I had this patch in production at one site for three weeks
> > without issues so far.
> 
> I'm just wondering. If someone has issues using it, can I
> forward the question to you?  If you support your patch, I'll
> merge your pull request.

Yes, I can support it on a «best effort» basis, feel free to
forward requests to me.  That will also motivate me to improve
the nsupdate specific documentation if there are too many «how do
I configure this» requests.

-Daniel

-- 
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/

Re: [Ddclient-support] Add nsupdate(1) support

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 05/22/14 19:12, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-04-30:
>> I got a pull request [1] on github but I can't decide if it is
>> a good idea to add the service.  It would add support for
>> nsupdate on ddclient.  Does anyone out there has any comments
>> on this?
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/wimpunk/ddclient/pull/3
> 
> Looks like either this list is dead or there are no strong
> opinions on this.  If the problem is the lack of a testing
> environment, I can provide test zones with dynamic update
> capability to interested developers.
> 
> FWIW, I had this patch in production at one site for three weeks
> without issues so far.
> 

I'm just wondering. If someone has issues using it, can I forward the
question to you?  If you support your patch, I'll merge your pull request.

Regards,

wimpunk.

Re: [Ddclient-support] Add nsupdate(1) support

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2014-04-30:
> I got a pull request [1] on github but I can't decide if it is
> a good idea to add the service.  It would add support for
> nsupdate on ddclient.  Does anyone out there has any comments
> on this?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/wimpunk/ddclient/pull/3

Looks like either this list is dead or there are no strong
opinions on this.  If the problem is the lack of a testing
environment, I can provide test zones with dynamic update
capability to interested developers.

FWIW, I had this patch in production at one site for three weeks
without issues so far.

-- 
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/

Re: [Ddclient-support] Avoiding update when the IP has not changed

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

I got a bounce notification when sending my previous answer.  I hope
sf.net fixed the issue now.

On 05/07/14 08:01, wimpunk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It should check its IP against the cached version and only commit the
> detected IP if it differs from the cached version or if the latest
> update was long ago (based on max-interval).  It looks like you either
> have a cache or a configuration problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> wimpunk.
> 
> 
> On 05/06/14 22:48, Roberto Pavani wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    I have seen on the syslog that ddclient write a warning
>>
>> WARNING: updating ....  nochg: No update required; unnecessary attempts 
>> to change to the current address are considered abusive
>>
>>    So checking the code (from my little understanding) it seems that the 
>> update procedure will happen also when the IP
>>    hasn't changed.
>>    I have then added a little piece of code (just for the no-ip section 
>> but similar can be done on dyndns section)
>>    This little piece of code check the ip for the host to be updated 
>> against the one obtained by Google dns server.
>>    If the wanted ip address is same of the one obtained from google DNS 
>> server 8.8.8.8 then a "SUCCESS" message
>>    will be printed and remain part of the code will be skipped for that 
>> host.
>>    Here my diff of original client and my mod
>>
>>    I don't know if this feature is already present on the code and was 
>> just me that didn't realyze that.
>>
>>       If not, i hope someone will do similar change on the mainained 
>> code adding same also on dyndns part.
>>
>>           Cheers
>>
>>      Roberto
>>
>> =========================================
>> diff /usr/sbin/ddclient.orig /usr/sbin/ddclient
>> 2465a2466,2473
>>  >         my $host_ip = `host $h 8.8.8.8|grep $h|sed 's/.*has address //'`;
>>  >
>>  >       if ( $ip == $host_ip )
>>  >       {
>>  >     success("Host already updated %s: IP address is %s was %s", $h, 
>> $ip, $host_ip);
>>  >       }
>>  >       else
>>  >       {
>> 2537a2546
>>  >     }
>>
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Re: [Ddclient-support] Avoiding update when the IP has not changed

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

Hi,

It should check its IP against the cached version and only commit the
detected IP if it differs from the cached version or if the latest
update was long ago (based on max-interval).  It looks like you either
have a cache or a configuration problem.

Regards,

wimpunk.


On 05/06/14 22:48, Roberto Pavani wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I have seen on the syslog that ddclient write a warning
> 
> WARNING: updating ....  nochg: No update required; unnecessary attempts 
> to change to the current address are considered abusive
> 
>    So checking the code (from my little understanding) it seems that the 
> update procedure will happen also when the IP
>    hasn't changed.
>    I have then added a little piece of code (just for the no-ip section 
> but similar can be done on dyndns section)
>    This little piece of code check the ip for the host to be updated 
> against the one obtained by Google dns server.
>    If the wanted ip address is same of the one obtained from google DNS 
> server 8.8.8.8 then a "SUCCESS" message
>    will be printed and remain part of the code will be skipped for that 
> host.
>    Here my diff of original client and my mod
> 
>    I don't know if this feature is already present on the code and was 
> just me that didn't realyze that.
> 
>       If not, i hope someone will do similar change on the mainained 
> code adding same also on dyndns part.
> 
>           Cheers
> 
>      Roberto
> 
> =========================================
> diff /usr/sbin/ddclient.orig /usr/sbin/ddclient
> 2465a2466,2473
>  >         my $host_ip = `host $h 8.8.8.8|grep $h|sed 's/.*has address //'`;
>  >
>  >       if ( $ip == $host_ip )
>  >       {
>  >     success("Host already updated %s: IP address is %s was %s", $h, 
> $ip, $host_ip);
>  >       }
>  >       else
>  >       {
> 2537a2546
>  >     }
> 
> 
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