Package: ddclient Version: 3.6.7-2 Severity: normal Subject: ddclient does NOT force-update DDNS your-ddns.dyndns.org
-- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 ... Locale: UTF8 Hi. At nought :) tnx much for ddclient & packaging, nice work! At first mention that ddclient updates CORRECTLY if IP is changed! At second this is regarding about 5 of my servers (Pentium, firewall). All of my ddclient using has the same bug. There is a workaround. A. If UR using dyndns.org FREE service - u need to FORCE update DDNS every less than 30 days, because u get warning after then and DDNS IS DELETED(!) after 35 days - which can DAMAGE all of your "system" if your daemons & script depends on some domain, which is DDNS. (Yes, u can pay to dyndns.org for NOT expiring DDNS - but this is NOT argument for malfunctioning program :) **Because of this ^^^ I vote for serious/grave severity!** B. A hostname you have registered with Dynamic Network Services at DynDNS, blabla.dyndns.org, with current IP address 85.bbb.ccc.ddd, will expire in the next 5 days. This expiration is due to an automatic timeout; your host has not been updated for 30 days, and hosts are removed after not being updated for 35 days. This is our policy to prevent a stagnant DNS system. You can purchase an account upgrade at https://www.dyndns.com/+upgrades/add.html - users with any services do not have to worry about their hosts expiring. You can "touch" your hostname and prevent it from being deleted simply by performing a manual, or forced, update. If you wish to allow your hostname to expire, simply do nothing. You will receive a notification when this occurs. https://www.dyndns.com/+dyndns/abcdtttt.dyndns.org is a direct URL to a page where you can manually update your hostname. Simply submit the form (by clicking the "Modify Host" button), and your hostname will not expire unless it is left without updates for another 35 days. If you do not use your account any longer, please delete it using the tools at <https://www.dyndns.com/account/settings/delete.html>. We regret seeing you go. Please contact the support department at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have questions, queries, or comments. Sincerely, The DynDNS Team ************************************** ************************************** 0. REPORTBUG sry I had to run reportBUG on another computer (I do NOT want to install python 4MB just for reportbug) so this more information I give you from aptitude show Package: ddclient State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 3.6.7-2 Priority: extra Section: net 1. DAEMON.LOG before workaround Jul 20 07:25:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddclient[2220]: WARNING: forcing update of abcdttt.dyndns.org from 85.bbb.ccc.ddd to 85.bbb.ccc.ddd; 30 days since last update on Tue Jun 19 21:14:44 2007. Jul 20 07:25:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddclient[2220]: WARNING: cannot connect to members.dyndns.org:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ' members.dyndns.org' Jul 20 07:25:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddclient[2220]: FAILED: updating abcdttt.dyndns.org,servis.dyndns.org: Could not connect to members.dyndns.org. 1B. i) I can ping & host members.dyndns.org ii) There is no DNS or network problem - see that everything's fine after /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache iii) I'm dealing with this a few months iv) there is no problem, if DDNS IP is changed! v) i have this repeating every 5 minutes - 30 hours ... so no dyndns.orgservice failure or so ... 2. WORKAROUND rm /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache /etc/init.d/ddclient restart (get this to your crontab - every 2 weeks re-run - do NOT do this daily - it's considered ABUSIVE) 3. DAEMON.LOG after workaround Jul 20 07:27:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddclient[2220]: WARNING: caught SIGTERM; exiting ** thats because of restart Jul 20 07:27:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ddclient[11526]: SUCCESS: updating abcdttt.dyndns.org: nochg: No update required; unnecessary attempts to change to the current address are considered abusive Huuuge thanks for the ddclient. Thanx for the packaging ddclient. Muuuch thanks for Debian (best ever) distro. Thank you to all Debian package maintainers. 've a nice day! JK -- Ing. Jan Kunder jan.kunder-HATESPAM-gmail.com http://www.kunder.sk http://www.romintegra.sk http://www.hudakcd.sk JKjkjk rozpmnqestka
