still cant get ddclient to work

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-05-30, Wade Smart 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 'checkip.dyndns.com'

I *occasionally* get this error message from ddclient (running as a
daemon), but it works most of the time and I've never had any trouble
using the hostnames.  I assumed it was an intermittent error at
dyndns.com.