From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 17:11:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112EF37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manifold.vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AE543E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manifold.vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g683MX5v083259; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g683MWJe083258; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:22:32 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Stacey Roberts Cc: Chuck Warren , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic DNS Client experiences? Message-ID: <20020708032232.GB83206@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , Stacey Roberts , Chuck Warren , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1026054811.88014.44.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1026054811.88014.44.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you're using sh to execute a perl script. instead of # sh ddclient start do instead: # perl ddclient start -Adam >> (07.07.2002 @ 0813 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 7.1K: << > Hi Chuck, > I've got the domain sorted now, but I'm having a problem setting up > ddclient. Well.., I can't seem to get this thing started, to be honest. > > I've done the following: > In /usr/local/etc, > copied ddclient.conf.sample to ddclient.conf > edited ddclient.conf to use the router's IP, login & password > saved the file > went to /usr/local/sbin and tried starting manually for the first time > as per the instructions: > /usr/local/sbin $ sh ddclient start > require: not found > use: not found > use: not found > use: not found > use: not found > my: not found > my: not found > =~: not found > my: not found > =~: not found > my: not found > ddclient: 21: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > /usr/local/sbin $ > > Can you (anyone that using ddclient) please give me a hand here? > > Stacey > > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 15:02, Chuck Warren wrote: > > > > >From: Stacey Roberts > > >Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com > > >To: Adam Wood > > >CC: 'FreeBSD-Questions' > > >Subject: RE: Dynamic DNS Client experiences? > > >Date: 04 Jul 2002 23:01:22 +0100 > > > > > >Thanks Adam (and everyone else that replied!), > > > I think that ZoneEdit meets the requirements for what I have in > > >mind here. Only, I'm drawn towards using ddclient for the dynamic DNS > > >client on the gateway. Have you come across this client? What are your > > >thoughts? > > > > > >Stacey > > > > > >On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 23:56, Adam Wood wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm hoping to get some of the list members' thoughts and > > > > > experiences with various dynamic DNS client programs here. > > > > > > > > > > I'm interested in running some services from a home network, > > > > > and I've decided to give the folks at ZoneEdit try - in case > > > > > anyone's interested., > > > > > > > > > > So any suggestions, comments, experiences and gotchas that > > > > > could assist me, are welcome. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I use ZoneEdit - they're great. Lynx (/usr/ports/www/lynx) works fine > > > > for updating my address. I have a cron job that runs the following > > > > script once a week. > > > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > # Script to update IP address at ZoneEdit. > > > > lynx -source -auth=USERNAME:PASSWORD > > > > 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=woodfucius.com' > > > > > > > > chmod the script to 700 and you're all set. > > > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > Adam > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >-- > > >Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science > > >Network Systems Engineer > > ><< signature.asc >> > > > > Stacey - > > > > I have been using ddclient (with dyndns.org) without a problem for months... > > comes with it's own startup script and can be modified to suit your needs.. > > quite easy and only takes a few minutes to setup. > > > > Need a hand surely let me know. > > > > Cheers > > Chuck > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science > Network Systems Engineer >> end of "RE: Dynamic DNS Client experiences?" from Stacey Roberts << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message