still cant get ddclient to work

[Dan Farrell]

The only time I got it to work was from using a package for gentoo
linux, but that seems like a dns problem.  You do have DNS working on
the system, I take it?  Can it look up checkip.dyndns.com?

On Thu, 29 May 2008 19:36:52 -0500
Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 20080529 1934 GMT-6
> 
> I have watched the posts come up and read the links that have been
> posted about how to get ddclient to work, but I have never received
> anything other than these responses:
> 
> WARNING:  cannot connect to checkip.dyndns.com:80 socket:
> IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname '?'
> 
> 
> regards,
>     ddclient at wadesmart (version 3.7.3)
> 
> and
> 
> WARNING:  caught SIGTERM; exiting
> 
> 
> regards,
>     ddclient at wadesmart (version 3.7.3)
> 
> 
> My script was created by the dyndns site and so I'm thinking it
> should have the right values. I don't think it has ever worked.
> 
> Wade
>