Re: [Ddclient-support] Email to ddclient-support

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

Rob,

On 1/25/07, Rob Dartnell <am...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to send the following email to
> ddclient-support:
>

You did a good job...

> my questions are:
> - do you require the namecheap login to be posted in
> the ddclient request?

ddclient has to be able to login to namecheap so it needs your login.

> - what is host_name, and how is it relevant to the
> dynamic DNS?
>
> my current config is as below:
> daemon=300
> protocol=namecheap
> server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com
> login=**my_login**
> password=**my_password**
> robdartnell.com
>
> as you can see, i simply specified the domain and left
> out the host_name.

You make your life to hard.  When updating, ddclient sets that
host_name=robdartnell.com.  So you don't have to worry about the faq
on namecheap.

kind regards,

wimpunk.