Trouble with ddclient

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 18:25:49 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 15:27 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 20:52 -0700, Lee wrote:
> >> can you paste your conf file (minus passwds of course)?
> >
> > [Please don't top-post on this list. See the Guidelines]
> >
> > Thanks but I think I've identified the possible culprit. Turns out my
> > router is also updating DynDNS, so the problem may in fact be there. I
> > still don't see why this should cause ddclient to fail, but it may be
> > that the router blocks access to the DynDNS server.
> >
> > If that isn't the cause, I'll follow up later.
> >
> > poc
> >
> 
> Hi Patrick, I don't know if this is relevant to your issue - and I am at
> work at the moment without the time to think this through properly so I
> apologise if I am wasting bandwidth...
> 
> There have been a few bugs relating to ddclient, notably these two [1][2],
> which related to the fact that ddclient did not have Native systemd
> service file. A fix for this has recently been released. It may be that
> your existing configuration has been borked by this update if you did not
> notice it going through...
> 
> It may be unrelated your problem though and, as you say, it may just be
> your router - but perhaps worth a look....
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720627
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718756

Thanks Mark. I'm already using 3.8.1-1 but I don't see a systemd file.
In fact none is listed in the rpm catalogue. This appears to contradict
the BZ discussion as far as I understand it.

I'll take another look and maybe comment on BZ.

poc



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