Topic: easydns using ez-ipupdate

[mark]

Is anyone else that uses easydns having trouble with the dynamic dns updates when using ez-ipupdate with 5.5? I have been using it with 5.0 with no trouble but I just did a new install of 5.5 and installed the ez-ipupdate rpm and setup the login and password just like I had on 5.0 but it does not work. At boot it appears to hang when it attempts to run and finaly times out and the boot continues. I checked the messages file and I see this error:

/usr/local/bin/ez-ipupdate[2397]: malformed cache file: /tmp/ez-ipupdate.cache

Anyone ever see this and know what the cause could be. I'm going to try to remove the rpm and reinstall to see if that helps.

thanks for any assistance
-Mark

[Boris Mann]

I just tried it for the first time, and it took some troubleshooting.

First off, I'm using PPPoE, and eth1 doesn't have an IP address associated with it -- ppp0 does. Also, the username and password didn't seem to be being passed in properly, since I got prompted for both when I ran the command manually --

/sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/easydns restart

I just ended up editing the template file to hardcode my settings --

/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/easydns.conf/10easydns

gets edited to look like this --

service-type=easydns
user=youreasydnsusername:yourpassword
host=host.yourdomain.com
mx=mail.yourdomain.com&backmx=YES
interface=ppp0
cache-file=/tmp/ez-ipupdate.cache

Lastly, I'm still getting the "malformed cache file" message, but it seems to be working.