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don quixada l33t
Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:06 pm Post subject: ddclient and freedns |
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Hi, since dyndns has made it difficult for free users to actually use them I've been courting other free DNS name services. One in particular, freedns, can be updated with ddclient. I've been having difficulty getting ddclient to work with freedns. Has anyone had any success with doing this? I've followed the instructions but it still doesn't seem to work. Thanks!
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jsm84 n00b
Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I was able to get it working by using the example config (as a template) from the freedns site:
http://freedns.afraid.org/scripts/freedns.clients.php
I did have a few issues, mainly a couple of modules that perl required, which prevented ddclient itself from running. |
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don quixada l33t
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe that's the problem, ddclient isn't actually working. I added it to the default runlevel and it seems to start properly but I'm not sure if it's actually working. Is there any way to test it?
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user Apprentice
Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 202
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
ddclient supports protocol=freedns
If using ddclient with syslog reporting
Code: | # /usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon=0 -syslog -use=if -if=<your interface> |
you will see syslog reporting like
Quote: | ddclient: SUCCESS: updating <your dyn. host>: good: IP address set to <your IP> |
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666threesixes666 Veteran
Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 1248 Location: 42.68n 85.41w
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:09 am Post subject: |
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http://www.changeip.com/default.asp
and dont look back. i vaguely remember a cron job to update and it working, 6 months per login instead of monthly. what dyn-dns should of been..... |
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