after the system boots I grep and see the following process running

"perl -w /usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon 300 -syslog"

To me, that translates into, I am going to update dyndns every 300 seconds and write my output to my syslog.

Nothing is getting written to syslog.



"ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet" This runs sucessfully.


Its almost as if I need to set up a cron job to run the above command every so often to update dyndns, but I shouldnt have to. Why isnt ddclient not updating or writing to my syslog.


Here is my current config.

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
#use=if, if=eth0
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org, web-skip='IP Address'
server=members.dyndns.org
login=xxxx
password=xxxx
xxxx.homelinux.com


Thanks in advance,

Boyd

maybe it is a firewall problem.

ddclient only does an update when the IP address changes, unless you call for a forced update. It only writes to the syslog when it starts, stops, does an IP update or attempts to do an update and the IP address has not changed. The real test is whether it updates dyndns within 5 min. of an IP address change.

Think about it for a minute. Would you really want something writing a syslog entry every 5 min. saying “I’m OK”?

This makes sense, except the IP address of this box never changes, it has network address and I use port forwarding on my router to direct me to this box. The IP address obtain by my router is the router I need updated.


How should I resolve this issue, Should I set up a cron-job for every 1-2hrs?


Thx again,

Boyd

according to your config, you're getting the ip from checkip.dyndns.org which returns your external address. Look at /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache to see what ip it's seeing/setting.

ddclient couldn’t care less what the box IP is.

Every 5 min, it compares the probe of the IP source to what is in /etc/ddclient/ddclient.cache (ddclient-3.6.6). If the source IP address changed, then it updates dyndns and ddclient.cache.

Regarding running ddclient as a cron job, if you set ddclient up using the RedHat-style rc configuration as described in the README file, it is running as a daemon and does not need to be restarted periodically.

README...
cp sample-etc_rc.d_init.d_ddclient /etc/rc.d/init.d/ddclient
/sbin/chkconfig --add ddclient
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ddclient start

If you did not install ddclient that way, then Yes, you need to periodically run it.


Maybe you are getting a bad IP reading. Try running:

ddclient -daemon=0 -query

and you will get a listing of all the IP addresses supplied by the various use= options available for getting the inbound ip address. I set up ddclient to read the router directly.