[Ddclient-support] ddclient in Astaro Security Gateway

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

Hi,

Astaro management just decided that, in the future, ddclient will be
shipped as the dynamic DNS update client in the Astaro Security Gateway.
See http://www.astaro.com/ for more information about this product
family.  The decision was made based on a recommendation by dyndns.com.

For that reason, i just implemented ddclient support in the Astaro
Security Gateway.  If QA testing goes well, ddclient 3.7.2 will ship
with the Astaro Security Gateway 7.100 later this year.  Very probably,
i shall be maintaining ddclient/ASG integration in the future, too.
Of course, i shall feed back any observations to your project.

While checking available dynamic DNS providers, i came across the
following points in ddclient --help:

 (1) The service provided by za.net appears to be at www.dyndns.za.net,
     not at www.dydns.za.net.  The string "www.dydns.za.net" appears
     twice in the file "ddclient".

 (2) As far as i understand, za.net no more uses concont, but they
     rather use gnudip now.

 (3) ddclient --help says:
       The 'dnspark' protocol is used by DNS service offered by
       www.dnspark.com.  Configuration variables applicable to
       the 'easydns' protocol are...
     That should probably be 'dnspark' in the last line.

 (4) ddclient --help says:
       protocol=hammernode1         ##
       server=fqdn.of.service       ## defaults to members.dyndns.org
     That should probably read 'dup.hn.org' in the comment?

 (5) According to my tests, www.hn.org and dup.hn.org can no more
     be reached:
       $ dig dup.hn.org
       ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> dup.hn.org
       ;; global options:  printcmd
       ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

 (6) ddclient --help says:
       The 'namecheap' protocol is used by DNS service offered by
       www.namecheap.com.  Configuration variables applicable to
       the 'easydns' protocol are:
     Once more, that should probably read 'namecheap', not 'easydns'?
     Ooops, this seems already fixed in SVN, ddclient rev. 61.

Besides, a few times, i found the following in the logs:
  Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/sbin/ddclient line 1966.
I shall investigate more closely when i find time.

In any case, thanks for working on ddclient!

Yours,
  Ingo

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Ingo Schwarze <isc...@as...> | Software Engineer | Framework Team
Astaro AG | www.astaro.com | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany