ddclient

[JD]

On 01/30/2013 09:38 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I have to admit, I'm really struggling trying to get ddclient to work at
> all.
>
> I started off with a full '/etc/ddclient.conf' file but was plagued by
> this dreaded error message:
>
> 'WARNING: file/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value
> for keyword 'ip' = '''
>
> along several lines (lines 3, 4 & 12)
>
> Upon inspection of said file, nothing glaringly obvious stood out but
> every time I ran:
>
> 'sudo ddclient -use=ip -ip=1.2.3.4 -daemon=0'
>
> it failed & rm'ing the offending cache file didn't work either: still
> got the same error message & the file reappeared with the same obtuse flags.
>
> So, upon the advice of ddclient's wiki page, I ran with a minimal
> ddclient.conf:
>
> 'protocol=zoneedit1,
> server=www.zoneedit.com,
> login=xxxxxxxx,
> password='xxxxxxxxxx'
> www.foobar.com
> daemon=3600
> pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid'
>
> Still the same error message though & the attempt failed.
>
> I Googled for a couple of hours 'til my eyes started to bleed but no luck.
>
> I should say that zoneedit is working on my domain name, port 80 is open
> & forwarded on my router, the iptables are correct & the site is
> reachable from outside my LAN. Dig also reports all's OK.
>
> Has anybody got ddclient to work with zoneedit on 12.04.1 (everything is
> stock straight out of apt)?
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Phil...
>
Hi Phil,
FWIW, here is my /etc/ddclient.conf, which gives me no problems at all

daemon=150
cache=/tmp/ddclient.cache
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com/, web-skip=
login=my.login
password=my.password
use=ip, ip=1.2.3.4
protocol=dyndns2
server=dyn.com
my.doman.name