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DNS-O-Matic add-on
Am just trying Super Poussin's new DNS-O-Matic add-on. Installed, disabled, modified the dnsomatic file and restarted the service. There doesn't seem to be a way to confirm that it's working. If I ...
Can someone please correct me if im wrong,
When DNS-O-Matic is running it checks the current ip every 5min and compares it to the cached ip in /tmp/oldip.DNS-O-Matic.
If it is different it then updates the ip.
I was wanting to update the ip once every day or be able to change how often it updates, and force the update even if the ip is the same. I cant see anywhere to do this....
What I have done is create a cron job to change the cached ip once a day. this seems to work, I was just wondering if there was another way?
When DNS-O-Matic is running it checks the current ip every 5min and compares it to the cached ip in /tmp/oldip.DNS-O-Matic.
If it is different it then updates the ip.
I was wanting to update the ip once every day or be able to change how often it updates, and force the update even if the ip is the same. I cant see anywhere to do this....
What I have done is create a cron job to change the cached ip once a day. this seems to work, I was just wondering if there was another way?
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