Re: [Ddclient-support] ddclient improvement suggestion.

[Daniel R. <da...@ro...>]

wimpunk <wi...@us...> 2015-01-06:
> On 01/01/15 20:54, Paul N. Pace wrote:
> > I can only imagine the joyous times involved in uncovering such a bug.
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:47 AM, balthasar_s <
> > bic...@ch...> wrote:
> > 
> >> ddclient won't update the IP until a minimal interval since last update.
> >> Very good. But the way it's implemented now can lead to problems in
> >> specific circumstances.
> >>
> 
> I think it could be useful to give a warning if the update time is
> earlier than than the current one when reading the cache.  If your
> system runs in a this kind of problem you suggest, you have bigger
> issues than only a not-updated dynamic address.

That may be, but if you depend on ddclient for remote access to
the system in order to fix the bigger problems, then giving a
warning is not very helpful.

Are there any issues with giving a warning *and* doing the update
for negative intervals?

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Daniel Roethlisberger
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