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Now, I have a small problem with my line going off every Sunday night around Midnight for maintenance. This requires me to reset the connection and run DDCLIENT to update my DynDNS.
What I need is a Cron Job of sorts to make sure the DynDNS is updated and that when my computer boots up that it can access the internet. It's been a little unstable the last few weeks as far as connections go, and I'm unsure on how I should go about programming a Cron Job to check for Internet connection and update DynDNS records.
Thanks for your help.
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gnuageux
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What IP do you lease from your provider? Why not just try "borrowing" the leased IP and adding it to confd.net? I mean the worst that could happen is that the dhcp server on the other end wouldnt lease that addy to anyone else, right?
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HydroSan
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| gnuageux wrote: | | What IP do you lease from your provider? Why not just try "borrowing" the leased IP and adding it to confd.net? I mean the worst that could happen is that the dhcp server on the other end wouldnt lease that addy to anyone else, right? |
What do you mean? My DSL connection resets the IP every time, and I can't change that.
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Right, but what I am saying is to take a look at the ip you lease when connected. (ifconfig | grep inet should give you the ip youve leased for that session) Copy that IP and add it to /etc/confd.net. I dont think that your provider would notice, & it would likely fix your issue.
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HydroSan
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| gnuageux wrote: | | Right, but what I am saying is to take a look at the ip you lease when connected. (ifconfig | grep inet should give you the ip youve leased for that session) Copy that IP and add it to /etc/confd.net. I dont think that your provider would notice, & it would likely fix your issue. |
How would I do that? Can you give an example? I'm using Kernel-side PPPoE.
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what about using a 'client that actually works(tm)' 
| Code: | * net-dns/ez-ipupdate
Latest version available: 3.0.11_beta8
Latest version installed: 3.0.11_beta8
Size of downloaded files: 80 kB
Homepage: http://gusnet.cx/proj/ez-ipupdate
Description: Dynamic DNS client for lots of dynamic dns services
License: GPL-2 |
/etc/dyndns.conf
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/ez-ipupdate -c
service-type=dyndns
user=<your user:your password>
host=<your hostname>
interface=ppp0
max-interval=86400
period=300
cache-file=/tmp/ez-ipupdate.cache
daemon
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| Code: | | echo ez-ipupdate -c /etc/dyndns.conf >>/etc/conf.d/local.start |
- runs itself in daemon mode
- checks every 'period' seconds for changes
- updates dns accordingly
HTH
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HydroSan
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Would this also work for Custom DNS', too?
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