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Best way to get DDNS for DtDNS.com on RN104
I have tried a number of dynamic dns providers (dtdns, dyndns, no-ip) and have found dtdns to be the most reliable and best service. OK the website is out of date, but like most things its doesn't l...
Sincere apologies to anyone who tried my solution - I just spent a few hours diagnosing why my second NAS wasn't updating and eventually found a daft error... the ddclient.conf file should start with use=web and not user=web as I wrote in the initial solution - otherwise everything is as-is.
I'm glad you managed to get it working.
One alternative to vi -
you can copy the file from /etc to a NAS share from ssh. Then edit it from windows using Notepad++ and keeping in it linux format. When done, copy it back to /etc. Note this won't work with notepad.
Sincere apologies to anyone who tried my solution - I just spent a few hours diagnosing why my second NAS wasn't updating and eventually found a daft error... the ddclient.conf file should start with use=web and not user=web as I wrote in the initial solution - otherwise everything is as-is.
redstamp wrote:
Sincere apologies to anyone who tried my solution - I just spent a few hours diagnosing why my second NAS wasn't updating and eventually found a daft error... the ddclient.conf file should start with use=web and not user=web as I wrote in the initial solution - otherwise everything is as-is.
I took the liberty of editing your earlier post, so it now starts with use=web
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