Topic: dyndns custom dns update client

[ted hobson]

Hi,

So can the e-smith's dynamic ip update client update the custom DNS services of dyndns.org? If so how do you set it up? I have my domain name registered with dotster, its entered at dyndns as a custom dns zone and everything seems to be running fine accept I've gotten two errors in my messages log on the e-smith server. 1st I had my primary domain name set to tedhobson.net which is what its set to on dyndns and dotster. I got the a message saying it wasn't a fully qualified domain name so it wasn't updating dyndns. So I changed it to www.tedhobson.net. Now its saying that name isn't found on the dyndns servers? Could somebody help me with this? I would think the primary domain name on e-smith should be tedhobson.net as it is on dyndns and dotster but... apparently thats not fully qualified! Whats up with that?

[Dan Brown]

The dyndns.org client, as shipped, does not support the custom DNS services, because the folks at dyndns.org require a different parameter to be set for that service than for dynamic dns (for reasons which are known only to them).  If you edit /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/dyndns.org and change line 20 to begin with

system=custom\&...
This should do the trick.

[ted hobson]

Hey, thanks.

That seems to have solved the problem. Pretty simple really. The guy at dyndns.org didn't have much info.

Thanks
Ted.

[Fred]

The query to update dns information is explained here :
http://support.dyndns.org/dyndns/clients/devel/query.shtml