[Ddclient-support] Fwd: ddclient in Astaro Security Gateway

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

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From: wimpunk <wi...@us...>
Date: Jul 27, 2007 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Ddclient-support] ddclient in Astaro Security Gateway
To: Ingo Schwarze <isc...@as...>


Hi,

On 7/26/07, Ingo Schwarze <isc...@as...> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for using us project.  I'm hoping to release 3.7.3 pretty soon.
 It has a few nice patches so maybe you could ship that one.

> 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.
>

I'll take a closer look to this.

>  (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?

Could you send us a patch for these typo's? It's easier to apply for me.

>
>  (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

As previous discussed with the ubuntu maintainer: it's still there for
historical reasons.

>
>  (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.

The ubuntu maintainer has send us a few typo patches.  :-)

>
> 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.

That would be nice.

>
> In any case, thanks for working on ddclient!
>
> Yours,
>   Ingo
>
> --
> Ingo Schwarze <isc...@as...> | Software Engineer | Framework Team
> Astaro AG | www.astaro.com | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany
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