ddclient-support

[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] 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] 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] 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