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[Ddclient-support] [ddclient - Help] ddclient update problem

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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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[Ddclient-support] [ddclient - Help] RE: ddclient update problem

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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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[Ddclient-support] [ddclient - Help] RE: ddclient update problem

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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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[Ddclient-support] [ddclient - Help] RE: ddclient update problem

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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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[Ddclient-support] [ddclient - Help] RE: ddclient update problem

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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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[Ddclient-support] [ddclient - Help] RE: ddclient update problem

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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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