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Title: help with dyndns.org ?
Post by: Felix on March 03, 2001, 05:19:48 PM

hi guys,
i just finished my first installation of e-smith 4.1.1 ...it's just great.
everything i need seems to work right now, almost :-)

i have to smaller problems and hope somebody out there can help me out !

1. I signed up for an account at dyndns.org. i chose a hostname (avalon-castle.dyndns.org) and configured the e-smith server to use dyndns and entered my username and password.
but it looks like the e-smith wouldn't update the ip-information, when i do it manually via a browser it works ? any idea ?

2. How and where can i add UDP/TCP ports to foreward ?
i know the linux-commands and the ports i want to foreward, i just need to know where the configuration files for the e-smith are to add my own ports !


thx in advance ....and sorry, for the last 15 years i only used microshit software, so i'm not into linux commands.

felix

Title: Re: help with dyndns.org ?
Post by: matoa on March 03, 2001, 11:06:03 PM

Dyndns didn't worked for me too so what i did is that I disabled this feature and I used a client (ipcheck.py) for the update.
Now it works fine...

Mathieu
;o)

Title: Re: help with dyndns.org ?
Post by: Dan Brown on March 03, 2001, 11:36:42 PM

The dyndns.org client is very simple, and should work fine as long as (1) you've entered the correct setup information, and (2) the dyndns.org system is working.  Try a 'grep dyndns.org /var/log/messages' and see what messages are listed there; this should give you a pretty good idea of what's going on.

Title: Re: help with dyndns.org ?
Post by: dat on March 11, 2001, 12:46:55 AM

try this util. ezipupdate , you can download it at: ftp://acaudit.dyndns.org;
read more information ( in french) at: http://acaudit.dyndns.org

Title: Re: help with dyndns.org ?
Post by: Charlie Brady on March 11, 2001, 01:57:54 AM

dat wrote:
 
> try this util. ezipupdate , you can download it at:
> ftp://acaudit.dyndns.org;
> read more information ( in french) at:
> http://acaudit.dyndns.org

There should be no need to install additional software - there is a dyndns.org client (thanks to Dan Brown!) and if it doesn't work then the problem is probably a configuration error. If there is a bug in that client, please investigate and report to bugs@e-smith.com, rather than installing additional software.

Thanks

Charlie

Title: Re: help with dyndns.org ?
Post by: Dan Brown on March 11, 2001, 08:03:19 AM

One very useful thing to try when you're troubleshooting problems with dyndns.org (may apply to other scripts as well)--add this line to /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/dyndns.org:

logger -t dyndns.org "Update called with arguments $*"

This will log the arguments used, so you can determine if they're right (and/or if the script's being called at all).

Always grep /var/log/messages for dyndns.org to see what's happening; this will just make the logging a bit more verbose.