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Can anyone tell me where I can get step-by-step instructions for setting up
ddclient in FC6? I'm not sure how to go about editing the PERL script.
Thanks for your time!

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By: dehuszar

Then you've not seen Domino.  :)  It does not respond to sendmail-style commands,
nor does it pretend to be sendmail as MTAs like Postfix do.  Hence my initial
question.

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By: mrdleigh

Of course, sysvconfig doesn't exist for Woody! ;c(  (I'll be glad to finally
get off this distro!)

But all is not lost...here is what I found...finally...that connected the missing
links in my understanding.

In my linux system:
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz
This explained the various directories and the runlevel concepts

Then I saw somewhere that one needed to use the update-rc.d command to create
the links in the various /etc/rc?d directories to point to the ddclient script
in /etc/init.  It's these links that execute the scripts in /etc/init at startup
and shutdown.

I found more accessible info for update-rc.d at:
http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/Maintenance-runlevel.html
Note well, however, that the keyword listed in this page as "default" is really
"defaults" (with an "s").

So, that was the missing link and hopefully that will help someone else avoid
the same pain!

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By: wimpunk

Every MTA I've seen uses the command `sendmail` to send mail so it should work
with every MTA.

wimpunk

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By: dehuszar

I use Domino on Linux.  I'm trying to see if there's a way to push messages
from ddclient to port 25 instead of to the sendmail client.  Looking through
the documentation and the ddclient --help, there doesn't seem to be any mention
about alternative MTA's.  Is ddclient hardwired to use sendmail?

Thanks in advance,
Samuel deHuszar Allen

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By: wimpunk

I normally use sysvconfig to manage which program has to be started.  You could
also check the ddclient debian package and check what's inside...

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By: wimpunk

First: your problems were probably related to troubles with dyndns-servers.
Members.dyndns.org was onder under attack. More about it can be found on:
http://www.dyndns.com/news/status/#1173853523
Your warning is just a warning telling ddclient is stopping.  There's been some
discussions about this warning lately and I think it's removed in the latest
versions of ddclient.

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By: sortega

Hi, i had ez-ipupdate to update my dynamic ip in dyndns but since the last saturday
at night i had some problems, the dyndns support said me that they don't support
ez-ipupdate so i change to ddclient and when i start o restart the services
in the logs file say "WARNING:  caught SIGTERM; exiting"; what means that? ddclient
is working correctly?

Thanks!!
S.Ortega

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By: mrdleigh

I already have the most recent version of ddclient up and running..."manuall".
What I'm missing is having it start with the system startup.  I need some
debian-specific help on the update-rc.d command, etc.  Obviously that doesn't
have to be you if you're not a debian person but someone on the forum, if they
can help me with the debian-specific actions to get something into the "startup
scripts", I'd appreciate it very much.

Thanks!

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By: wimpunk

I'm sorry but it won't be added.  It's not conform the dyndns recommendations
and I really don't want every ddclient user be excluded because of a bad dns-server
(configuration).

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By: scottalhen

I found this behavior to be unexpected as well. I assumed that there would be
an additional step, 2a: compare IP to that reported by dns. My experience with
other dyndns clients (for Windows) is that they 1) compare the current IP to
that reported by dns, and 2) they don't keep a cache. Could this be added, at
least as an option? When I was testing the installation, I spent a while trying
to figure out why it was not updating -- this thread explains exactly what I
figured out.

Other than the missing step 2a, I like the product and am very happy with it!
Thanks for working on it!

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By: wimpunk

Install the default ddclient package and, if necessary, replace the ddclient
file by a more recent version.  That's the easiest way to get it up and running.

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By: mrdleigh

Unfortunately it's a special "education/school" distribution and I can't update
it at the moment.  (I'm the sys admin at a school and I can't re-create the
world until this summer when school's out).  So, I'm stuck with Woody at the
moment.  I just need some understanding from a Debian person what the steps
are to get ddclient going at startup.

Thanks!

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By: wimpunk

Hi,

If you are a newbie, I would suggest to upgrade (or even better, reintall) to
at least the current stable version of debian.  I would even suggest you to
use etch since it's almost ready to be distributed.  Use the ddclient package
supplied with debian and read the documentation about debian to get how init
works.
The init-scripts supplied with ddclient are as-is.  Most of them are supplied
by other users but most distributions change the scripts on every distribution
so it's hard to be very accurate.  Mostly they just need a little modification
to get them running but you need a little understanding about the init implementation
of your system to do it right.

Greetings,

wimpunk.

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By: mrdleigh

Linux newbie here!

I have ddclient installed in a Debian Woody system in /usr/sbin with the
configuration file in /etc/ddclient.  It seems to work in "manual" mode...i.e.
when I execute it explicitly.  I'd like to set it up to run as a deamon with
it starting at system startup.

I've used the example startup file and created a ddclient startup script in
/etc/init.d but one final thing escapes me.

I've read about using update-rc.d to then establish the symbolic link in the
/etc/rc?d directories to actually have the ddclient startup script invoked at
startup, but it's not real clear to me and it appears that update-rc.d is only
for "packages"? (and I don't think that ddclient is a "package" per se.)

So, what I'm missing is what is the exact command to execute or procedure to
follow to make this ddclient startup script execute at system startup and just
where in the raft of things that get started should ddclient be started (i.e.
dependencies, "runlevels" [which I don't really understand!]?)

Thanks for any hand-holding-help you all can offer! ;c)

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By: fgillote

Hello Wimpunk,

Maybe I misunderstood, but in my ddclient.conf, I have the line
server=members.dyndns.org and when the ddclient script executes its update it
tries to open a socket on "members.dyndns.org". My problem is : if the dns are
unreachable for example, the ddclient script can not connect to members.dyndns.org
(IO::Socket:: Error message can no connect to "members.dyndns.org"). If the
DNS are up, it can still no connect with the same error message. But if I add
a line in the ddclient script to try to open the socket on the ip address (I
got the ip using a system("dig") command) it WORKS!

Here is my ddclient.conf, did I miss something ?

syslog=yes
daemon=120
mail=xxx
mail-failure=xxx
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
use=if, if=ppp0
server=members.dyndns.org
protocol=dyndns2
wildcard=yes
login=xxx
password=xxx
site1-eyebox.dyndns.org

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By: wimpunk

Fred,

i can't follow.  When you use use=if ddclient checks the if-setting and gets
it IP from your interface.  So if you use something like `ddclient -use=if -if=eth0`
ddclient does something like `ifconfig eth0` and fetches the IP.  The use=if
has nothing to do with members.dyndns.org.

wimpunk

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By: fgillote

Hello wimpunk,

Here are the results of my test

1) It works with the use=web method

2) For the use=if method, I did the fllowing modifications in the ddclient script
:
   Try to open the socket with the url
   If it does not work, get the ip address of members.dyndns.org using a system("dig
members.dyndns.org") because the problem is linked to the perl DNS resolution
environment (I tried gethostbyname inet_ntoa .. with no success)
   Then I try to open the socket again using the ip address in place of the
url name, it seems to work.

Fred

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By: wimpunk

Okay, the name is a little confusion: the only thing it does is updating dynamic
dns servers.  It's a dynamic DNS server client which updates the IP on the dns
server.  It updates if it differs from the one in cache, not more, not less.
Btw, this way of working is the recommended way by dyndns.

Could you explain a little more when it doesn't do what you expect?  How do
you test it?  As recommended by dyndns.org, it doesn't work if you change your
IP at dyndns by using another program or the website of dyndns.  You have to
change it to another value by using ddclient if you want to test the update.
The other way is to force a change of your own IP address (in my case by releasing
my dhcp address).  This is the way ddclient works:

1. use the use-option to find IP
2. compare IP to cache-IP
3. if (differs) { update and write2cache }
4. sleep (daemon-time)
5. goto 1.

So if you want to test if ddclient does a correct update you can either force
an ip by using 'use=ip ip=1.2.3.4' or force your provider to change the IP.
It's the only way.

wimpunk

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By: meofcourse

uhhhhh.... Doesn't ddclient stand for dynamic dns client. The whole point of
the program is to update your dynamic dns with your new ip, if it is different
from the one in the dynamic dns server database.
http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/

I'm don't think I understand your comment. As the first sentence of my post
says, it updates on the first run. After that I have to remove the cache file
for it to work. I know it updates my dynamic DNS, but only when there is no
existing cache file.

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By: wimpunk

Ddclient doesn't check dns.  If you want to test if ddclient really updates,
stop ddclient, force an ip by running `ddclient -use=ip -ip=1.2.3.4 -daemon=0`
and then start ddclient again.

wimpunk.

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By: meofcourse

Here is my problem. I can run ddclient once and it works.  However, when testing
multiple times, I manually changed my ip on dyndns.com. I then waited the 5
min to update, but no update happened.  If I use htop, I can see that the process
is sleeping for the 600 seconds, and it counts down to zero and starts at 600
seconds again.  Also killing the ddclient process and starting it again doesn't
do anything either.  What does work is to delete the ddclient.cache file. Then
ddclient updates the ip address.

Here is my ddclient.conf file(retyped though) (I used the sample from
dyndns.com

#Basic configuration file for ddclient
#
#/etc/ddclient.conf

daemon=600
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
use=web, web=chickip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address'
login=myloginname
password=#######
protocol=dyndns2
server=members.dyndns.org
wildcard=YES
ftmac.dyndns.org

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By: ernie49

Thanks,

I will try it as soon as possible.

Kind regards.

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By: wimpunk

I modified the patch against the most recent subversion version but it should
work with ddclient 3.7.1.  It can be found in the patches:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1668836&group_id=116817
&atid=676130
Apply the patch this way: patch ddclient < eurodns.patch

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Hello,
i use the dinamic ip service (dyndns) in my server.
I used ddclient to update my remote configuration at dyndns.org....
Until yesterday all work well, but today my ddclient can't update the
ip address of my computer and so my server is no more accessible from
the net.
I don't change the ddclient.conf file.
This is my conf file...i knows that it is correct, but printing debug
infos it show me something not clear and strange:

# Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf
#
# /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=120
syslog=yes
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
ssl=yes
protocol=dyndns2
use=web,web=checkip.dyndns.org/,web-skip='IP Address'
protocol=dyndns2
server=members.dyndns.org
login=*****
password='*****'
custom=yes, *****.net

I tried also with this command:

ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet 2 /etc/ddclient.conf

and the result is:

DEBUG: proxy =
DEBUG: url = checkip.dyndns.org/
DEBUG: server = checkip.dyndns.org
DEBUG: opt(fw =
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/sbin/ddclient line 1660.
DEBUG: glo fw =
CONNECT: checkip.dyndns.org
CONNECTED: using HTTP
SENDING: GET / HTTP/1.0
SENDING: Host: checkip.dyndns.org
SENDING: User-Agent: ddclient/3.7.1
SENDING: Connection: close
SENDING:
RECEIVE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
RECEIVE: Content-Type: text/html
RECEIVE: Server: DynDNS-CheckIP/1.0
RECEIVE: Connection: close
RECEIVE: Cache-Control: no-cache
RECEIVE: Pragma: no-cache
RECEIVE: Content-Length: 103
RECEIVE:
RECEIVE: <html><head><title>Current IP
Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: 82.53.60.*</body></html>
DEBUG: get_ip: using web, checkip.dyndns.org/ reports 82.53.60.*
WARNING: skipping update of *.net from 82.53.59.* to 82.53.60.*
WARNING: last updated Fri Mar 23 14:40:09 2007.
WARNING: Wait at least 30 seconds between update attempts.

Why it tell me "skipping update"? it doesn't show me the problem...

Thanks

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