Re: [Ddclient-support] Log file

[Ingo S. <isc...@as...>]

Hi Josu,

Josu Lazkano schrieb am Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:10:36PM +0200:

> 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'

The IO::Socket::INET library tries to resolve the host
name 'checkip.dyndns.org' into an IP address and that fails.
Probably, you are starting ddclient early in the boot process
before you have name resolution up and running.

Make sure that while booting, you start the various services
in a good order, and don't start anything before the required
prerequisites are working.  In particular, first start up your
interfaces - dial-in, probably? - then start up the DNS resolver
(which may be automatic, some PPP and some DHCP client programs
automatically create the file /etc/resolv.conf when receiving the
necessary information from the peer) and only start ddclient when
you are sure that DNS resolution is working properly, in particular
that /etc/resolv.conf is in place and contains working name
server adresses of your Internet service provider.

How to achieve that in detail is outside the scope of this list,
ask the supplier of your PPP, DHCP or booting system - whatever
you happen to be using - for support if you fail to fix that yourself.

Yours,
  Ingo

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Ingo Schwarze <isc...@as...> | Software Engineer
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