[Bug 522988] Review Request: dyndns - A dynamic DNS client for the free service afraid.org

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Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi>  2009-09-15 05:06:29 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > I read the link but don't see anything wrong with the name.  what are you
> > suggesting?  
> 
> Give this app a proper name. "dyndns" is a protocol or a generic term, but not
> a name. We don't have "email", "smpt", "pop" or "parser" in Fedora, because if
> we allowed names like these, we would have collisions pretty soon.
> 
> "dyndns" also sounds like a claim that this is the best or the official dyndns
> client, although it only handles afraid.org but no other dyndns services.
> 
> You are the author, you can name this program whatever you like, but please
> don't call it "dyndns".

Yes, it is rather confusing, especially since there is already
http://www.dyndns.com/ who provide dynamical DNS services (their client is
called ddclient).

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