Re: [Ddclient-support] ddclient updates not working -- invalid logins

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

On 10/5/18 1:57 AM, Mark Adams wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> Around the end of July my automatic ddns updates stopped working. My
> domain is registered at namecheap.com and I was on chat with them for a
> couple of hours before they finally told me that they can't help me and
> provided a link to information about manually updating my ddns. I find
> that a bit unsatisfying and am considering moving my registrar but I
> wanted to see if I could get this sorted out first.
> 
> The trouble is in here somewhere. This is the output from "ddclient
> --force" on my server:
> 
> # ddclient -force
> WARNING:  skipping host: @: 'login=' is an invalid login.
> WARNING:  skipping host: @: 'login=' is an invalid login.
> WARNING:  SENT:
> http://dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/update?host=\updated&domain=to&password=below&ip=64.130.86.93
> 
> WARNING:  REPLIED: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> WARNING:   Cache-Control: private
> WARNING:   Content-Type: text/html
> WARNING:   Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSQTCDSAT=KEDDLBADPKAMKAMMIDKCCODF;
> path=/
> WARNING:   Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:46:41 GMT
> WARNING:   Connection: close
> WARNING:   Content-Length: 423
> WARNING:
> WARNING:   <?xml
> version="1.0"?><interface-response><Command>SETDNSHOST</Command><Language>eng</Language><ErrCount>1</ErrCount><errors><Err1>Domain
> name not
> found</Err1></errors><ResponseCount>1</ResponseCount><responses><response><ResponseNumber>316153</ResponseNumber><ResponseString>Validation
> error; not found; domain
> name(s)</ResponseString></response></responses><Done>true</Done><debug><![CDATA[]]></debug></interface-response>
> 
> FAILED:   updating \updated: Invalid reply.
> 
> 
> My ddclient config looks like this:
> 
> 
> ## NameCheap (namecheap.com)
> ##
> use=web, web=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/getip \
> protocol=namecheap                              \
> server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com  \
> login=adams-lan.org                     \
> password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx               \updated to below key
> on 9/16/18
> 
> 
> That's they way the individual I chatted with at namecheap had me
> configure it. I noticed that information at ddclient's wiki was slightly
> different:
> 
> 
> protocol=namecheap
> server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com         \defaults to
> dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com
> login=adams-lan.org    \login name and password registered with the service
> password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> adams-lan.org  \the host registered with the service.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, that didn't work either.
> 
> Can anybody shed some light on this for me?
> 
> I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

The backslash isn't a place where you put comment, it should be before
the end of the line, indicating a continous line.  That's why you get
"host=\updated" in the URL sent the server.  It uses the part after the
password as hostname.  That's also why you get a "Domain not found" in
the response.

Kind regards,

Wim.