ddclient and freedns

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

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!

dq

jsm84 · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 4

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.

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 790

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?

dq

user · Apprentice Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 200

Hi,
ddclient supports protocol=freedns

If using ddclient with syslog reporting

666threesixes666 · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:09 am Post subject:

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.....