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eton
Apr 20, 2012Luminary
DDClient - by WhoCares - I hope this one will work
Finally a new dyn dns client, D(yn)D(ns)Client, thanks WhoCares: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=62337 DnsOMatic - didn't work for all hosts (as promised) and used dum constant updates and we got warnings f...
eton
May 30, 2012Luminary
WhoCares? wrote: Thanks for the report. It actually looks like DDClient will only update when the IP address has changed unless told otherwise. So I'll add a function that will force an update every Sunday, which should be sufficient for most cases.
Great! As you might know many dyn dns service providers only allow IP update if the IP has changed (and for some you also have to update every 30 days - which is kinda like catch-22). One way to work around the problem could be to first update to a fake number and after that update to the correct/old IP.
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