#38 DynDNS DDNS service is trying to expire

[craig keenan]

DynDNS DDNS service is trying to expire:

version 2 WRT54G router running firmware 2.02.2.1.wfb ,
01/02/2004

If my ip address does not change for 30days the DDNS
service does not try to update DynDNS.org due to lack
of a change. As a result, DynDNS.org says there has
not been any activity on my dynamic dns account and it
says it will cancel it. I would like to request a cron
job that does an update to the DDNS server even if it
is not different every couple of weeks or so...is this
possible?
thanks for the hard work, wifibox.
-ck

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could you not do this anyway via telnet?

[craig keenan]

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Could you explain how i could do this automatically via
telnet? What would be the commandline on the router?
thanks

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TELNET 192.168.1.1

THEN
username root
pwd admin

then do whatever to call your cron job.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I can see how to use a cron job, but do you know what the
command is to get the dyndns to update?

I am not a unix guru, but I know my way around some.

Thanks for your help and your efforts on this firmware.
-ck

[craig keenan]

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I can see how to use a cron job, but do you know what the
command is to get the dyndns to update?

I am not a unix guru, but I know my way around some.

Thanks for your help and your efforts on this firmware.
-ck

[craig keenan]

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OK, Iv'e been working at this lately, but having some
problems... on the Administration->Diagnostics screen I
enabled the Autorun Bash Script and put the following into
the type-in box (removed user/pw/hostname):
echo "*/1 * * * * root ez-ipupdate --service-type=dyndns
--user=<user>:<pw> --host=<hostname>.homeip.net
--address=24.1.0.0 -b /tmp/ddns.cache;ez-ipupdate -D -c
/tmp/ddns.conf -b /tmp/ddns.cache" >/tmp/cron.d/update

This creates a cron job named update in cron.d directory
with a big old couple of commands to set the dyndns account
to junk and then to set it to a valid value. It is set to 1
minute intervals for testing, as I will set it to 10 day
intervals when working. all looks good and this command
string runs on the commandline fine, but does not seem to
run with cron. Any ideas what might be wrong ? sonycrx or
wifibox? I am very close to solving this problem with this
script. I have a couple of friends that are having the same
problem and could use this fix