[SOLVED] ddclient

[JD]

On 01/31/2013 04:55 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> 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...
>
You're welcome.