[OT] Test my dyndns site

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Tue Jan 8 23:03:10 UTC 2008


Alejandro,

Alejandro wrote:
> El mar, 08-01-2008 a las 13:59 -0800, Chris Gauthier escribió:
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> cholito.homelinux.org.  60      IN      A       192.168.0.10
> 
> Yeah, for some reason, ddclient wasn't sending the right public IP
> address. I just set it manually, but I'll wait until the next update
> (which I have no idea when it will be).

I think you need a line:

use=web

in your ddclient.conf file. That will cause ddclient to connect to an
external WEB site to get your external facing IP address rather than
your internal one.

Regards,
Tony.
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