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I have a domain name and DNS service with easydns.ca.  I have a Debian
server running behind my Netgear router.  Easydns.com officially
supports "ez-ipupdate", but this only seems to work off the eth?
interface.  I need a client that works from behind my router and with
easydns.com/.ca.  Can anybody recommend one please?

TIA
Malc

Hi Malcolm,

Quote:> I have a domain name and DNS service with easydns.ca.  I have a Debian
> server running behind my Netgear router.  Easydns.com officially
> supports "ez-ipupdate", but this only seems to work off the eth?
> interface.  I need a client that works from behind my router and with
> easydns.com/.ca.  Can anybody recommend one please?

Where exactally does the problem lie.  If your router supports NAT, you should
be able to use the program without any major problems.  Where abouts does the
update process fail ?

See ya

Dean Thompson

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Hi Dean

Perhaps I'm not understanding the documentation properly.  However, it
seems that ez-ipupdate can only determine IP addresses directly from a
network interface.  This is no good for me as it will always detect the
private IP 192.168.0.34.  It updates easydns.ca just fine with that IP
address, but that address is no good!  I'm not quite sure what your
point about NAT is: I don't see how that is relevant.

http://support.dyndns.org/dyndns/clients/unix.shtml lists several good
looking dynamic DNS clients, some that detect the IP via a URL, and some
that can talk directly to my Netgear RT314.  However, none of these list
easydns.com as a support service.  Ultimately, I could run one of the
other Win32 clients, but would rather not as I reboot those machines a
lot, or unplug them, or whatever.  Or, as the source is available, I
could patch ez-ipupdate with something from another Linux client... but
I don't think I have time for that.

Malc

usage: ez-ipupdate [options]
 Options are:
  -a, --address <ip address>    string to send as your ip address <------
  -b, --cache-file <file>       file to use for caching the ipaddress
  -c, --config-file <file>      configuration file, almost all arguments
                                can be given with: <name>[=<value>]

[...]

You can specify an IP address via the command line, or if using the
config file, in there too. See the examples.    

I gather your problem is that the router holds the routable IP from your
ISP? OK, what you need to do is write a short script to pull this out.
Most of these have a mini web server. Does this one? If so, you can do
this with a oneliner:

MY_IP=`lynx -dump http://192.168.1.1/<path>/some.html |grep IP |sed 's/IP:\ //``

Just an example. If you'll send me the URL to the page, and the page
itself, I'll do it for you (if you don't know how). Then you can do
something like:

  /usr/local/bin/ez-ipupdate -S easydns -u hal:XXXXXX -R hal -h $HOST \
                -m $MX -a $MY_IP

You can also use that one liner in a cron job to see when/if your IP
changes.

while true; do

 MY_IP=`lynx -dump http://192.168.1.1/<path>/some.html |grep IP |sed 's/IP:\ //``

   if ! [ "$OLD_IP" = "MY_IP" ]; then

    /usr/local/bin/ez-ipupdate -S easydns -u hal:XXXXXX -R hal -h $HOST \
                -m $MX -a $MY_IP
    OLD_IP=$MY_IP

   fi

 sleep $INTERVAL

done

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Hal B




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Or, perhaps you're just using the wrong dynamic DNS service? If you've found
clients for other services that work, maybe you should switch services?

[Note: yes, I know, I'm biased, but I'm not hiding my bias...]

Vivien

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Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/

Hi Vivien!

Yes, I'm familiar with dyndns.org and I don't mind your bias:  I think
it is an excellent service.  I've used dyndns.org for sometime.  It
seems reliable, although I've only ever used my domain name occasionally
from on the road to call home.

However, I wanted to host mydomain.ca on my dynamic IP address, not
mysubdomain.dyndns.org.  When I did my research (before I handed money
over to easydns.ca), it seemed that to do this would involve a couple of
other places too, such as Granite Canyon.  Reviews of that service were
less than complimentary at times, especially w.r.t. to reliability.
Also, I wanted "one stop shopping", and IMHO, easydns.ca offered a
reasonable price.

Right now I have DynSite (Win32) updating my easydns.ca account.
All-in-all, the service was trivial to setup.  I have several aliases
pointing at my domain name, and an MX record too, backed up by their
SMTP server if mine is unavailable.

Malc

Hi Hal,

Thank you for your offer of help.  I really appreciate it!  I'm not too
strong on the scripting languages and tools involved.  Apologies, but
this reply is quite long...

That is an excellent idea.

You are correct on both scores.  The WAN port of my router has the IP
from ISP.  I use NAT to forward port 80 to my web server.  The router
has a web server.

The web server requires authentication which the perl script in
ddnclient did as a base64-encoded HTTP request header.  I finally
figured out that I can do it in one, although it will show up
(insecurely?) on the command line, e.g.:

http://user:passw...@192.168.0.1/mtenSysStatus.html
or, in the case of Lynx:
lynx -dump -auth=user:password http://192.168.0.1/mtenSysStatus.html

I like your suggestion of using Lynx in this way.  I tried modifying the
Perl script from ddnclient, but Perl isn't my Forte, and I found I was
spending a lot of time just trying to trim out all the bits that I don't
need via trail-and-error (time consuming).  Memory is tight on my
server, and I suspect that Lynx will have a bigger impact on the system
than Perl: inittab get's the cut and it won't spawning so many consoles
anymore.

Okay, here it is.  I mentioned the page above, but I'll repeat it here
to avoid scrolling (BTW, are the authentication details always hidden
from the ps command?):
lynx -dump -auth=user:password http://192.168.0.1/mtenSysStatus.html

And here's the HTML.  For such a small page, it's quite long winded.
The interesting bit is under WAN port, where IP Address : 64.228.131.68.

<HTML><head>

<meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html;charset=iso-8859-1'>

  <META NAME="generator" CONTENT="GoLive CyberStudio 3">

<script language="JavaScript">

    function doSubmit()
    {
        top.buttom.location="ack.html";
    }

    function doLoad()
    {
        top.buttom.location="buttom.html";
    }

    function doEdit()
    {
        window.location="AddrEdit.html"
    }

    var szHelp="mtenHelp_1.html";
    function doHelp()
    {
        window.open(szHelp, 'HELP',
'width=450,height=250,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');
    }

</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#000067" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
onload="doLoad();"
      LINK=#000000 VLINK=#000000 ALINK=#000000 -->

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/Forms/mtenSysStatus">

  <table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
HEIGHT="25">
    <TR>
      <TD><DIV ALIGN=right>
        <A HREF="#" onClick="doHelp()">
        <IMG SRC="images/help.gif" WIDTH="55" HEIGHT="24" BORDER="0">
        </A></DIV>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

  <table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <TR>
      <TD><IMG SRC="images/deco_up.gif" WIDTH="30" HEIGHT="28">
      </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

  <table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <TR>
      <td WIDTH="3%">?</TD>
<td WIDTH="97%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT
SIZE="5" color="#C0C0C0">
        SYSTEM STATUS
      </FONT></B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" HEIGHT="20">
    <TR>
      <TD>?</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
bgcolor="#ffffff" HEIGHT="70%">
    <TR>
      <TD><DIV ALIGN=center>
          <table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
bgcolor="#ffffff" HEIGHT="70%">
            <TR>
              <TD><DIV ALIGN=center>
                  <table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0"
CELLPADDING="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
                    <TR>
                      <td WIDTH="10%">?</TD>
<TD>?</TD>
<td WIDTH="10%">?</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                      <td WIDTH="10%">?</TD>
<td bgcolor="#ffbf3b">
                        <DIV ALIGN=center>
                          <table WIDTH="500" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0"
CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <TD>?</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <TD><HR>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <TD><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">
System Name :                                                 <B>
frontdoor                              </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <TD><FONT SIZE="2" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">
Firmware Version:                                             <B>
V3.24(CA.0) | 2/8/2001                              </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <TD><FONT SIZE="2" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">

<B>
                              </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <TD>?</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <TD><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" font size="3"><B>
WAN Port :                                    </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="480" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <td WIDTH="260" COLSPAN="13"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
IP Address :                                                    <B>
64.228.131.68                                </B></FONT></TD>
<td WIDTH="20">?</TD>
<td WIDTH="180" COLSPAN="9"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">DHCP
                                : <B>
None                              </B></FONT></TD>
<td WIDTH="20">?</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <td WIDTH="480" COLSPAN="24"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
IP Subnet Mask :                                                <B>
255.255.255.255                              </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="480" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <TD>?</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="500" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <TD><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><B>
LAN Port :                                    </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="480" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <td WIDTH="260" COLSPAN="13"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
IP Address :                                                   <B>
192.168.0.1                              </B></FONT></TD>
<td WIDTH="20">?</TD>
<td WIDTH="180" COLSPAN="9"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">DHCP
                                : <B>
Server                              </B></FONT></TD>
<td WIDTH="20">?</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
                              <td WIDTH="480" COLSPAN="24"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
IP Subnet Mask :                                              <B>
255.255.255.0                            </B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="500" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <TD><HR>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><B></B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<table WIDTH="500" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
                            <TR>
                              <TD><DIV ALIGN=center>
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON VALUE="Show Statistics"
onClick="window.open('mtenSystStatusFrame.html', '',
'width=720,height=250,status=yes');">                              
</DIV>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
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