ddclient

**Pakia** · June 7th, 2009

I am having problems with ddclient. I use freedns.afraid.org and my settings are as follows;
daemon=300
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
ssl=yes
protocol=dyndns2
use=web
server=freedns.afraid.org/zc.php?from=L3N1YmRvbWFpbi8=
login=myloginname
password='xxxx'
example.net

Any advice appreciated and thanks in advance

**puppywhacker** · June 7th, 2009

what kind of problems?

**Pakia** · June 8th, 2009

My IP does not automatically update I still have to do it manually

**puppywhacker** · June 8th, 2009

is the configuration file correct

Code:

cat /etc/ddclient.conf

anything in the logfiles?

Code:

grep ddclient /var/log/messages

does the /etc/default/ddclient contain a run as daemon

Code:

# Set to "true" if ddclient should run in daemon mode
run_daemon="false"

does the ddclient start after

Code:

/etc/init.d/ddclient start
ps auxwww | grep ddclient

anything in the cache directory

Code:

cat /var/cache/ddclient/*

Ohh and is protocol: dyndns2 valid for afraid.org?

**brabo** · June 8th, 2009

i am not sure, but imho in the server line the php stuff is incorrect. you should just have a server name, so try to remove all after the .org
also, examplen.net must be your dyndns hostname.
save the file and restart ddclient with:
sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient restart

hope this helps.
brabo.

**Pakia** · June 11th, 2009

I think the server setting is the problem. I put freedns.afraid.org/zc.php?from=L3N1YmRvbWFpbi8= in as I tried freedns.afraid.org, afraid.org to no avail so tried the dirrect page link. All other settings seem to be good. All and any advice appreciated

**dupuy** · August 26th, 2009

Originally Posted by Pakia

I think the server setting is the problem. I put freedns.afraid.org/zc.php?from=L3N1YmRvbWFpbi8= in as I tried freedns.afraid.org, afraid.org to no avail so tried the dirrect page link. All other settings seem to be good. All and any advice appreciated

The problem is likely to be that the ddclient server type was wrong, since the freedns update mechanism was only available in a patch against 3.7.3 and now in the mainline source as of r111 (see sourceforge feature request 2832129):
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func...17&atid=676131

You can either download the original 3.7.3 patch (or better, the final patch against 3.8.0 that was accepted) and apply it yourself, or get the latest version from the subversion repository (see directions at http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=116817)