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Proofrific

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 220

ddclient stops working after restarting the router

I use ddclient to update my server's IP address to zoneedit.com (a DNS service).  Sometimes, my internet goes down, so I restart my router.  Afterwards, ddclient stops updating.  When I connect to my server via my new IP address (since I can't connect via the domain name because ddclient can't update the DNS server), I find that ddclient is still running:

[username@server ~]$ ps ax | grep dd
    2 ?        S<     0:00 [kthreadd]
 1038 ?        S      3:30 ddclient - reading from checkip.dyndns.org port 80
21180 pts/0    R+     0:00 grep dd

Any ideas why ddclient stops updating after restarting my router?

My server has a static IP address within my home network.