If you cut and paste this line from above:
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip=’IP Address’

you will end up with ’ characters, not ‘ characters, which causes this error.

login=’yourlogin’
password=’yourpassword’

I’ll probably have it figured out by the time anybody answers this, but what is

web-skip=’IP Address’

?

* Restarting Dynamic DNS service update utility ddclient WARNING: skipping host: Address´: ‘login=’ is an invalid login.

Can anyone help me out. I have a account with DYNDNS.com. The username I used is correct but error says its invalid. Password is also correct.

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
## use=if, if=eth0
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/
server=members.dyndns.org
login=someuser
password=’somepass’
my.site.com

It is a little bit different from the setting here, can anyone see a problem in my settings?

Also, what is web-skip=’IP Address’

Thanks

the daemon=300 only tells ddclient daemon to check once every 5 minutes, if the ip address has been updated, and if so, it sends an update the the ddns server

if no ip address changes have occured, it does NOT send an update to the ddns server

however, the ddclient running in daemon mode should automatically send an update every month, (i think every 25 days or something like that), even if no changes have been made in the ip address, in order to keep the account active

if you run the ddclient from a cron job, you can simply make another cron job with a FORCED update once every 30 days or so, see the manual for info about how to make a forced update

if your ip address changes more often than once a month, there is no problem, since it will be updated no longer than 5 minutes after the ip address changes

but if your ip address is in constant use for months, u will have to make the separate cron job, or preferably, run ddclient in daemon mode

in the end it all depends on which ip renewal rules your internet provider has set up for their DHCP server

plsssssssss can u help me.. let me know this script how to configure in with zoneedit plsssss post or mail me.. i m not familyer with script so plssss help me step by step or pls tell website..

thanks

make sure you have enabled universe and multiverse repositories

Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “ddclient”

how would you use this behind a nat address pool ?

daemon=300

The above line tells ddclient to update your public IP address every 5 minutes (specified in secconds).


#!/usr/bin/perl

($user,$pass,$host,$homedir)=("YOURNAME","YOURPASS","YOURHOST.COM","YOURHOMEDIR");
$ipthere = `cat $homedir/.ip`;
chomp $ipthere;
$ipnow="";
while ($ipnow eq "") {
$ipnow=`wget -q -O - http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp`;
sleep(3) if $ipnow eq ""; }
if (!($ipthere eq $ipnow )) {
print "changing $ipthere to $ipnow\n";
print `curl -s --basic --user "$user:$pass" --data-ascii "host=$host" "http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html"`;
system("echo $ipnow > $homedir/.ip"); }


thanks for your comment i have updated the article

sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient force-reload
or
sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient restart