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Painguy

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Registered: 2014-08-20

Posts: 15

ddclient with noip not working

so I'm trying to use ddclient to update my noip host. I installed ddclient with pacman then edited the configureation file to look like this

# /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=60
cache=/tmp/ddclient.cache
syslog=yes
ssl=yes
wildcard=no
protocol=noip
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com/, web-skip='IP Address'
server=dynupdate.no-ip.com
login='myemail'
password=mypass
example.ddns.net

then i enabled the service.

unfortunatley I am getting this error when i type the following

sudo systemctl status ddclient -l
● ddclient.service - Dynamic DNS Update Client
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ddclient.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2014-09-22 23:10:26 PDT; 11min ago

Sep 22 23:10:26 arch systemd[1]: ddclient.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Sep 22 23:10:26 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Dynamic DNS Update Client.
Sep 22 23:10:26 arch systemd[1]: Unit ddclient.service entered failed state.

Any ideas? Assuming I were to start the installation from scratch, what should I do? any alternative dns updater clients?

Last edited by Painguy (2014-09-23 06:55:17)