[SOLVED] ddclient

[Phil Dobbin]

On 01/31/2013 06:57 AM, JD wrote:
> 
> 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

Hi, JD.

I'm extremely grateful. That works like a charm.

It updated successfully when I re-started ddclient & no more errors did
I find in '/var/log/syslog'.

Hopefully somebody see this late one night when searching & it'll help
them too (I intend to run through the set up on my sys admin blog too).

Many thanks,

Cheers,

  Phil...

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