Dyndns.org account - ddclient problems

[Cabadam]

I used emerge to get the ddclient program and setup my hostnames, etc in the configuration. My problem comes from making it run. During the emerge, it placed its script into the /etc/init.d/ directory, and I "rc-update add ddclient default" ran as expected.
However, when I tell it to start:
/etc/init.d/ddclient start

I do not get the normal output telling me that it was started successfully. Instead, after a short pause, I go straight back to the commandline with no output at all. However - it DID go update my IP as I can now correctly ping my hostname. But it seems like it is not running in the backgroudn as it is supposed to. After some time, when my IP has changed, it does not update.

What have I done wrong? How can I get this to run continually in the background?
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Adam Clauss
cabadam@tamu.edu

[Toris]

Firstly, check your update variable in /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf, daemon=???, where ??? is the amount of seconds between each time it checks your IP.
You mention it works correctly, so it's detecting your IP correctly, so I won't suggest changing the "use=web" etc.. variable.

If you want to check if the process is running, type:
ps aux | grep ddclient
You should see something like:
root 27389 0.3 1.6 5748 4260 pts/3 S 20:56 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/ddclient

If you see that, it's most likely a problem with your configuration, if not the service hasn't started correctly.

[BCC]

Hi,

On my box, ddclient is not started as a daemon (it is not running in the background), IMHO it must be started by some scripts each time you get a new IP address.

Maybe you could try to add the following lines in your /etc/ppp/ip-up file :

[Cabadam]

Toris:
OK, ps aux | grep ddclient gave:
root 7867 0.1 0.8 5748 4232 pts/0 S 20:18 0:00 ddclient - sleeping for 290 seconds

So, it at least *thinks* it is there running... but for some reason it just isn't actually doing it.

daemon=300 in my conf file.



BCC:
Unfortunately I don't think that will work here - the gentoo box has no way of knowing when its IP address changes because it is behind a Linksys router. The gentoo server just has a static IP address.
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Adam Clauss
cabadam@tamu.edu

[BCC]

ok, your gentoo box has no way to know when your IP changed.

You mention your ddclient is running as a daemon, with sleeping time 300, and you mention it correctly updates your dyndns record when you start it manually, so it should work

Maybe an obvious question, but are you _sure_ it correctly updates your dyndns record ? You mention a 'ping' test, could you try an nslookup test instead ?

nslookup yourdnsname.dyndns.org

Does the above command return you the correct IP address assigned to your router ?

If it does, then no clue, could you post your /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf file ? (minus the password)
If it does not, then you could make a copy of this file and then play with the 'use=...' lines of it, maybe try the 'use=linksys, ...' configuration options.


Sorry if this is for no help, but it may be worth a double check.

[Cabadam]

nslookup returned the correct IP as well (and double checked against www.whatismyip.org just to be completely sure I wasn't doing something stupid there).

ddclient.conf follows