On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:02:36AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Paul Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [030510 01:56]: > > On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:59:45AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > That's *not* a problem, is it ?? > > > > Nope. But if you're using dhclient, you might find it better to work > > it into /etc/dhclient-script, in which it'll only run when the DHCP > > lease is renewed, which will save you and dyndns some processor time > > and bandwidth. > > > I do need a client that supports "broadband" routers, specifically my > Linksys BEFSR41. I see that 'ddclient' does. > > On the unix page, there's only two listed that do: ddclient and ipcheck. I'm using ddclient personally (it supports my router, too), and it seems to work, but: 1) It does not appear to be a question of "wakes up when your IP changes" as Paul said: In my reading of the help output, the daemon mode wakes up at a (user-specified) interval, and checks for a changed IP; passing the update to DynDNS iff there's been a change. Mine's set to an interval of 5 min -- I don't remember whether that was a default... 2) ddclient seems to be a hog, and I suspect it of having a memory leak(?). Top tells me that it's currently using 1.1% of my CPU and 13% of my memory. (In contrast, xmms playing an MP3 stream is using 0.1% CPU and 3.9% mem.) After ddclient's been running for a few days, that'll sometimes climb to 50% mem and the system gets unusably slow until I restart ddclient. So now I'm thinking about Paul's suggestion of working it into /etc/dhclient-script instead of letting it run as a daemon... Sadly, most of what's in that script is over my head. I don't suppose anyone has an example they feel like posting, so a n00b like me will know *where* to work a call to ddclient into that script...? Cheers! -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | I care less and less what people think. < > Please do not | - Ani DiFranco < > reply off-list. | < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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