Re: [Ddclient-support] Log file

[Wim V. <wi...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Josu Lazkano <jos...@gm...> wrote:
> 2011/5/20 Torsten Landschoff <t.l...@gm...>:
>> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:21 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>>> Hello. I just installed ddclient on a Debian server and I want to know
>>> if there a option to have a log file to check the daemon.
>>
>> There is the -syslog option (enabled by default on Debian) which uses
>> the system log daemon to log information. The result is usually found
>> in /var/log/daemon.log:
>>
>> root@pluto:/home/torsten# grep ddclient /var/log/daemon.log
>> May 17 04:18:53 pluto ddclient[697]: SUCCESS:  updating XXXXXX.dyndns.org: good: IP address set to 123.28.190.18
>> May 18 04:07:55 pluto ddclient[697]: SUCCESS:  updating XXXXXX.dyndns.org: good: IP address set to 123.18.50.23
>> May 19 04:09:11 pluto ddclient[697]: SUCCESS:  updating XXXXXX.dyndns.org: good: IP address set to 123.18.80.46
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Torsten
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thanks again, I check the /car/log/daemon.log and it is there!!!
>
> May 19 20:10:27 htpc ddclient[1726]: WARNING:  cannot connect to
> checkip.dyndns.org:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname
> 'checkip.dyndns.org'
> May 19 20:16:07 htpc ddclient[1726]: WARNING:  cannot connect to
> checkip.dyndns.org:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname
> 'checkip.dyndns.org'
> May 19 20:21:10 htpc ddclient[1726]: SUCCESS:  updating

I've tried some others but most have give errors to.  Btw, how fast do
you run ddclient?  There is a rate limit for the service so there is a
possibility you get blocked by there service.
In my experience the best thing you can do is getting your IP from your router.

Regards,

wim.