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gabrix
21st December 2007, 12:18
I have my domain name " gabrix.ath.cx " registered at dyndns.org from nearly 2 years and a never seen before issue came out , what does it mean ?:
SUCCESS: updating gabrix.ath.cx: good: IP address set to 87.20.151.187
FAILED: updating wildcard: notfqdn: A Fully-Qualified Domain Name was not provided
It's updating the domain name in the configuration file but it's not updating the wildcard which allows me to use subdomain names like www.gabrix.ath.cx . mail.gabrix.ath.cx etc.
If before i was reaching my web server writing www.gabrix.ath.cx now i can't and i can only reach it using its domain name with no * before the domain name i registered http://gabrix.ath.cx . This is my ddclient.conf

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
use=web, web=dyndns
server=members.dyndns.org
login=username
password='password'
gabrix.ath.cx
wildcard = yes

"A fully qualified domain name was not provided" refers to www.gabrix.ath.cx , but what's the point to have a wildcard as option , than ? Strange . I rember if i launched an # host @pubblic-nameserver www.gabrix.ath.cx the ouput was www.gabrix.ath.cx is an alias for gabrix.ath.cx 80.80.80.180.

falko
22nd December 2007, 16:46
Did you update ddclient? Or did DynDNS maybe change their API recently?

gabrix
22nd December 2007, 17:10
I always forget to say i run debian etch and i have the latest stable version of debian progs , my fault , i by now got over this installing bind9.
After i edited bind zone files i manage to resolve www.gabrix.ath.cx as expected as alias for domain gabrix.ath.cx , but if i'm not wrong in the past wasn't necessary .

BCheese
30th May 2008, 00:42
Gabrix,

I have just had the same problem with my own DynDNS domain name and found that this was caused by the ordering of items in the configuration file. Could I suggest that you move the domain name "gabrix.ath.cx" be moved to the very bottom of the file. This would then look like:

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
use=web, web=dyndns
server=members.dyndns.org
login=username
password='password'
wildcard = yes
gabrix.ath.cx


Cheers,
Brian.