How do I know if ddclient is really working properly

Barry Yu barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 3 13:35:16 UTC 2004


fedora wrote:

> After sending this i am forwarding the update to the ddclient 
> maintainer. Just curious if your device is a linksys.
>
> If so,  have you updated the ios on it recently? That will break 
> ddclients ability to read the status.htm page.
>
> Heres how you fix it.
>
> edit the ddclient script and then search for linksys
>
> replace the line that reads status.htm
>
> with
>
> 'url'  => '/RouterStatus.htm',
>
>
> The upgrade i did broke mine.
>
> -Greg
>
> serge pynte wrote:
>
>> Op za 03-07-2004, om 00:54 schreef Barry Yu:
>>  
>>
>>> I installed ddclient, during level 3 starting up I could see 
>>> "Starting ddclient ......... [O.K]"
>>> When logged in as root in console, received a mail from ddclient 
>>> said " Caught SIGTERM ;  exiting ". Is this a problem?
>>> Logged into desktop all the way from the main menu->System 
>>> setting->Server settings-> to Service configuration, can see that 
>>> ddclient (pid2930) is running.
>>> But the above "Caught SIGTERN" message seems to be a problem ( If it 
>>> is how to fix?), and within this local machine what can I do to find 
>>> out if ddclinet is really working properly? README is the only info 
>>> I have, I setup according to it and the ddclient could read the IP 
>>> address assigned from ISP to WAN port of my router, but this just 
>>> doesn't give enough confidence to prove it is really working - I 
>>> have to wait 5 days for IP address change  and then I can tell ( The 
>>> last resort ).
>>> Any pointer to solution will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It is a problem
>> u should reseive following mail from ddclient:
>>
>> SUCCESS:  updating blabla.dyndns.org: good: IP address set to
>> bla.bla.bla.bla
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>   ddclient at blabla (version 3.6.3)
>>
>>
>> if not check if named is setup right to forward and so on
>> mvg
>> serge
>>
>>  
>>
>
>
>
I am using a Linksys FEFW11S4 VER. 2 Wireless Access Point Router, in
/etc/ddclient.conf  I uncomment out the # for fw= xxxxx  as the README,
actually after completed installation of ddclient, the ddclient detected
IP addresss both at WAN port and my local system correctly.





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