Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On 7/30/22 11:00 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 05:55:23PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update
> > my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else.
> >
> > ps ax |grep dyn
> >     5237 ?        Sl   170:43 dyn_updater
> >     5269 ?        Sl     5:38 /usr/bin/dyn_updater --daemon start
> >   719685 pts/2    R+     0:00 grep dyn
> I can't find a `dyn_updater' in any of the Debian repos. So tell us:
>
> What /is/ dyn_updater? Where did you get it from? Does it have
> documentation? A config file? Perhaps some logs?
I was using ddclient and it wasn't working for possibly the same reason 
that dyn_updater isn't working.  I got dyn_updater from dyndns.org.
> Given the name and your description, the thing might update your
> dyndns record (not your IP address: your ISP changes this one).
> If this guess is correct, it'll depend on an external service.

If I understand this correctly ddclient and dyn_updater should tell my 
subdomain at dyndns.org what my current IP address so I can connect to 
my home computer.

Thank you,

Paul


> May be this one is failing?
>
> But that's only guesswork.
>
> Cheers