Another question; ddclient wont update.

[Tadhg]

Right, i must be overlooking something blindingly obvious here.

I can't get my ip to update properly to dyndns.

I have a domain registered www.futurecompass.net and im registered with dyndns.org.

I had everything running perfectly in XP but i wanted to switch over to Linux on my server.

So i have apache running. All ports are fowarded properly to the server. When i put my external ip straight into a browser, my page from the comes up perfectly.

So i have ddclient on the server, but when i run sudo ddclient -daemon=0 -v it retrieves the ip ok from the web but than tells me updating futurecompass.net: nohost: The hostname specified does not exist in the database.

Whats going on?

My ddcliet.conf is pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
use=web,web=checkip.dyndns.org/,web-skip='IP Address'
server=members,dyndns.org
login=username
password='password'
wildcard=YES
futurecompass.net

I'm pretty confident I'm missing some setting or havn't set up my dny properly.

[pablosanchezuy]

"server=members,dyndns.org", should be "server=members.dyndns.org"

Also, i think you are trying to update a different account type.
Yours should be custom type.
Look at the doc files for a different config file .
That should be on /usr/share/doc/ddlcient or sort of ...

Regards .
Pablo Sánchez.

[Tadhg]

man, you are a life saver. I thought I was completely misunderstanding DNS. It's all working now.

For anyone in the future, if you have a custom DNS you need to add custom=yes yourdomainname.net/com/org at the end of the config file. Everything else is the same. Run ddclient start -v to make sure everything is ok.

Thanks Pablo!

[splendid]

I get the following message:

WARNING: unable to determine IP address

Any ideas???

[mzar]

I got same error like you.Dunno what wrong.