Topic: Dynamic DNS with "custom" dyndns.org accounts

[Patrick Myles]

Has anyone had any experience of using the built-in e-smith dynamic dns scripts with a CUSTOM account from dyndns.org? (I have a mydomain.com rather than mydomain.dyndns.org or whatever).

The information on dyndns.org says only certain client scripts work with the "Custom DNS" accounts. Which client tool is set up on e-smith for dyndns.org?

Thanks,

Patrick Myles

[Dan Brown]

The client on e-smith is one I wrote myself.  There isn't a listing for it on the dyndns page because (1) I didn't see any point in listing it there when it only works easily with e-smith, and (2) I couldn't give them a short enough URL to download it from.

This client won't work with the custom dns service, because they require that the "system" parameter be set differently than for the regular dynamic DNS service.  You can make this change on line 20 of /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/dyndns.org (change it from dyndns to custom), and it should then work fine.  I don't know if there's a cleaner way to implement this.

[Patrick Myles]

Thanks Dan,

I will try that out and let you know if there are any problems with it.

Patrick Myles

[Frederic SURLEAU]

I had the same problem, and had a look in the dyndns.org script and in the log.
I had a 'badsys' message !

I found the explanations here :
http://support.dyndns.org/dyndns/clients/devel/query.shtml
and here :
http://support.dyndns.org/dyndns/clients/devel/codes.shtml

So I changed the system to "custom" and also removed the "wildcard=ON" because I understood it has no signification with Custom DNS.

I tired it yesterday and it worked fine.

Regards.

[jeff martin]

I'm using the custom dns also but only the primary domain is updating.  The virtual domain I created is not updating.  Is there someting I can change to fix this?

thanks

[Frederic SURLEAU]

About, virtual domains (CNAMES), I've done the folowing :
In host, I entered mail (for mail.surleau.org) and in data I entered surleau.org !
That is, I only have to update surleau.org.
I don't know if it's the right thing to do, but it works fine.