[TheHijacker]

This is a nice dynamic IP update tool for dyndns DNS provider.

Before you run it you have to configure it by editing configuration file /etc/inadyn.conf which looks like this:

# let it run in background as daemon
background

# but lets log into log file
log_file /var/log/inadyn.log

# Check for a new IP every 600 seconds
update_period_sec 600

# Enter your DynDNS.com username and password here

# your DynDNS.com username
username YOURLOGIN

# your DynDNS.com password
password YOURPASSWORD

# What kind of host is being updated? Choices are dyndns@dyndns.org, statdns@dyndns.org, custom@dyndns.org
dyndns_system dyndns@dyndns.org

# and the domains you need to update
# alias examplexxx.dyndns.org
alias example1.homeip.net

It think the file is self explained. Basicly you need to edit your username and password and at the bottom the alias domains that you are using. Can be one or many. If you have more then one then just repeat the alias lines and add your domains.

You can eventualy also change the period in which should try to update from default 600 second. Its smart and it will not do the update unless the IP actualy changed. At least thats something it says in manual, but I am unable to test this since I have static IP.

But I did make a test account and some bogus domain. And it sucessfuly updated the IP. This is a nice alternative to myetrayz DDNS since as I read on forum, that domain doesn't get automaticly updated with dynamic IP.

[vpeter]

Be carefull with updaters for dynamic IP's. I know few people who configure it wrong and theirs's account has been blocked or deleted because of too many wrong updates.

[mccar75287]

Hi Highjacker , I just wanted to update you on this. I've installed this yesterday morning and my IP changes every 24 hours from my ISP. Within a few minutes of the change this morning, dyddns was showing it had been updated. So this works brilliantly. And unlike ddclient which I previously uninstalled, it doesnt keep my disks awake. My disks still sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity and the inadyn still worked as expected.

Again, brilliant work. Thank you.

[-=))(( Xtreamer ))((=-]

This is very nice addon - but totally useless !!!!

Why on earth you need to use dyndns which is free but limited instead of the DNS name come built in the device.

what more easy than xxxx.myetrayz.net for access ?

it is not limited and totally free.

anyway, THJ is proving himself capable of practically anything on the ET.

[mccar75287]

xtreamer said:

This is very nice addon - but totally useless !!!!

Why on earth you need to use dyndns which is free but limited instead of the DNS name come built in the device.

what more easy than xxxx.myetrayz.net for access ?

it is not limited and totally free.

anyway, THJ is proving himself capable of practically anything on the ET.

The reason I'm using it is that the built in DNS doesnt work correctly for me.
It works to update the DNS name only after a reboot.

But since I keep my etrayz running 24/7 it hasnt been rebooted in 3 weeks so that the last time it updated automatically was 3 weeks ago, and before that it was about a month without a reboot. In all that time of 7 weeks, the DNS name xxx.myetrayz.net is never updated except immediatly after the bootup.

I think the fact that I have my disks set to sleep after 10 minutes, prevents the update.
But anyway, the new way works just fine.

[jonnyspin]

a couple of Qs:
1. where do you put the /etc/ directory? I've put it under WWW/ - is this correct?
2. how do you know that it has worked?

I use DynDNS updater as a service on a laptop at the moment, but this has the potential to be more useful with the eTrayz on 24/7

thx

[mccar75287]

jonnyspin said:

a couple of Qs:
1. where do you put the /etc/ directory? I've put it under WWW/ - is this correct?
2. how do you know that it has worked?

I use DynDNS updater as a service on a laptop at the moment, but this has the potential to be more useful with the eTrayz on 24/7

thx

You use the PHP installer to install inadyn but before you start it you should edit the configuration file found in /etc/inadyn.conf

Use vi from an SSH session or some other editor to edit with your personal details.

vi /etc/inadyn.conf

Scroll to where you want to make your changes, press i for insert mode, make the changes, press esc followed by :qw to quit and save.
You'll know its worked if you check the last update time on dyndns account page and you have only the etrayz version running.

[jonnyspin]

I'm so bad with Unix! ok, downloaded Putty, logged on as root and made the change.
had to restart the eTrayz as the Installer can't seem to stop the Inadyn service without a fail????

Now I'll leave it running a while and see if it works

thanks!

[hferreira]

-=))(( Xtreamer ))((=-, on 22 April 2010 - 14:47, said:

This is very nice addon - but totally useless !!!!

Why on earth you need to use dyndns which is free but limited instead of the DNS name come built in the device.

what more easy than xxxx.myetrayz.net for access ?

it is not limited and totally free.

anyway, THJ is proving himself capable of practically anything on the ET.

Today that the xxx.etrayz.net service is down and I'm reading this topic we all know way

[queenmaker]

hferreira, on 31 August 2010 - 21:22, said:

Today that the xxx.etrayz.net service is down and I'm reading this topic we all know way

Now prove the reliability of etrayz ddns :!:

[hferreira]

The inadyn is great to use as a backup dynamic dns (or even as a primary dynamic dns) and there is no updates since March 2007 however this is a simple application and do very well its work but are installed outside of the home folder and seems that is a package installed by many people so my sugestion is to update the package in the installer to the new installer structure so in the future when the users update the firmware (full install OS version only) this package will still work without reinstall and without reconfigure .

[Lexa]

I've got a problem with inadyn. After some period of time ceases to update the address on the dyndns. In a lot of log entries with the error:

Quote

W: DYNDNS: Error 'RC_IP_CONNECT_FAILED' (0x13) when talking to IP server
W:'RC_IP_CONNECT_FAILED' (0x13) updating the IPs. (it 0)
W: DYNDNS: Error 'RC_IP_CONNECT_FAILED' (0x13) when talking to IP server
W:'RC_IP_CONNECT_FAILED' (0x13) updating the IPs. (it 1)

Googling and found a description of the problem at DynDNS forum:

Quote

For the last several days, one of the checkip.dyndns.servers has not been providing the checkip service.

A host name lookup of checkip.dyndns.org returns these addresses:

checkip.dyndns.com has address 91.198.22.70
checkip.dyndns.com has address 204.13.248.70
checkip.dyndns.com has address 208.78.69.70
208.78.69.70 has been not responding for a while. Connection attempts currently hang, with an eventual timeout.

There is a bug in inadyn 1.96.2 such that when it gets an error trying to contact an IP server, it will continue to try that same server on every successive try until inadyn is restarted.

...
I have created a patch for inadyn which has a fix for the problem, and have tested it on a Linux system. Until I post it to one of the download sites I could send the source to anyone who is interested.

Soon to be released an update for inadyn.

[TheHijacker]

When available I'll make a package of it for APP Installer.

[drh104]

the special inadyn.conf setup for the Dynamic DNS freedns.afrain.org is as follows

from /etc/inadyn.conf

#####################################

--username userid
--password passwrd
--update_period 600
--forced_update_period 320000
--alias yourdynamic.ip.address,DFESDFDesldlieEIIiikiiKKIikkkljuugilugGFYFTTHF
--background
--dyndns_system default@freedns.afraid.org
--syslog

#####################################


the HASH is found after the following direct URL, just copy the hash after the update.php? as in the red color

http://freedns.afrai...mic/update.php?DFESDFDesldlieEIIiikiiKKIikkkljuugilugGFYFTTHF

[TheHijacker]

Nice find. Thanks for sharing.