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Hi

I've used Zoneedit for "donkeys years" with DDCLIENT successfully on Debian as the client updater.

Just recently - 2025-02-17 - ddclient has been reporting "FAILED:" for all of mydomains, (just 2).

Is there a problem with Dynamic DNS updates on Zoneedit right now, has something changed ?

Currently I have to manually update my DNS entries on the Zoneedit control panel, which luckily my ISP is pretty good, so I keep the same IP for a week or two.

Many Thanks

Peter
 
Hi Sandy

Thank you very much for responding so promptly.

There are are 2 domains, G8JCF.UK and CARNEGIE-DIXON.COM

Once again, many thanks

Peter
 
can you please try to update them again dynamically and let me know when complete.
 
Hi Sandy, I forced an update

sudo ddclient -daemon=0 -noquiet -force

and got back

FAILED: updating *.g8jcf.uk: 700: Hostname error
FAILED: updating 60mgroup.g8jcf.uk,bb.g8jcf.uk,carnegie-dixon.com,g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com,g8jcf.uk,g8jcfsdr.g8jcf.uk,mail.carnegie-dixon.com,mail.g8jcf.uk,olctl.g8jcf.uk,www.carnegie-dixon.com,www.g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com,www.g8jcf.uk,www.olctl.g8jcf.uk: no response from dynamic.zoneedit.com
The ddclient.conf file is
# Configuration file for ddclient
#
# /etc/ddclient.conf

daemon=600 # Check every 10 mins default was 60 seconds.
syslog=yes # Log update msgs to syslog.

mail=gm8jcf@g8jcf.uk # Mail all msgs to me
mail-failure=gm8jcf@g8jcf.uk # Mail failed update msgs to me
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid # Record PID in file.

ssl=yes

use=web
web=api.ipify.org

#ZoneEdit
protocol=zoneedit1
#use=web, web='http://www.zoneedit.com/checkip.html/', web-skip='IP Address'
#server=dynamic.zoneedit.com
server=www.zoneedit.com
login=PCarnegie

#Dymanic Token
#password=TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
password=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

carnegie-dixon.com
www.carnegie-dixon.com
mail.carnegie-dixon.com
g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com
www.g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com
g8jcf.uk
www.g8jcf.uk
mail.g8jcf.uk
bb.g8jcf.uk
60mgroup.g8jcf.uk
g8jcfsdr.g8jcf.uk
olctl.g8jcf.uk
www.olctl.g8jcf.uk
*.g8jcf.uk

Thank you for helping

Peter
 
we are not seeing any connection attempts at all. Can you run a traceroute (or MTR) to ZE DYN system at dynamic.zoneedit.com ?
 
Done

pi@raspi79:~ $ traceroute dynamic.zoneedit.com
traceroute to dynamic.zoneedit.com (64.68.203.17), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 5.851 ms 5.766 ms 5.714 ms
2 * * *
3 63.130.172.35 (63.130.172.35) 21.540 ms 21.490 ms *
4 ae5-100-xcr1.man.cw.net (195.89.96.113) 30.446 ms 21.337 ms 23.944 ms
5 ae31-xcr1.lns.cw.net (195.2.9.97) 30.288 ms 30.239 ms 30.190 ms
6 ae1-xcr1.ltw.cw.net (195.2.24.125) 30.133 ms 54.418 ms 54.331 ms
7 zayo-6461.ltw.cw.net (195.2.12.90) 52.927 ms 54.020 ms 53.968 ms
8 ae19.cr1.lhr11.uk.zip.zayo.com (64.125.24.68) 140.510 ms * 140.402 ms
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 ae4.mpr1.tor3.ca.zip.zayo.com (64.125.23.70) 109.966 ms 108.979 ms 108.957 ms
14 64.124.217.237.IDIA-265104-ZYO.zip.zayo.com (64.124.217.237) 130.904 ms 109.917 ms 109.883 ms
15 173.237.223.6 (173.237.223.6) 109.863 ms 109.845 ms 109.864 ms
16 dynamic.zoneedit.com (64.68.203.17) 109.846 ms 109.829 ms 109.826 ms

Hope that's what you need

Thank You

Peter
 
Things are really looking up :D

I changed the IP detection to

From
use=web, web='http://www.zoneedit.com/checkip.html/', web-skip='IP Address'

To
use=web
web=api.ipify.org
#The zoneedit checkup above returned :: for the IP address which updated the CP, so I had to manually
#login to CP and delete those '::' entries

And Server= is now
server=api.cp.zoneedit.com/

Then forced an update
~ $ sudo ddclient -daemon=0 -noquiet -force
SUCCESS: updating 60mgroup.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for 60mgroup.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating bb.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for bb.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for carnegie-dixon.com to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating g8jcfsdr.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for g8jcfsdr.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating mail.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for mail.carnegie-dixon.com to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating mail.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for mail.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating olctl.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for olctl.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating www.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for www.carnegie-dixon.com to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating www.g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for www.g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating www.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for www.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
SUCCESS: updating www.olctl.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (201: no update required for www.olctl.g8jcf.uk to 81.79.221.149)
Use of uninitialized value $h in hash element at /usr/bin/ddclient line 4556.
Use of uninitialized value $h in hash element at /usr/bin/ddclient line 4557.
Use of uninitialized value $h in hash element at /usr/bin/ddclient line 4558.
Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in sprintf at /usr/bin/ddclient line 2160.
SUCCESS: updating : IP address set to 81.79.221.149 (200: All hostnames updated to 81.79.221.149)

And all is looking correct, :):cool:

So let's see what happens when my ISP changes my IP

Thank You for all your help, really appreciated

Peter
 
hi Peter.

excellent.. please let me know how it goes upon the next ISP IP change,

regards
 
Hi Sandy

Just around the time you sent me the message, we had a mains electricity power-cut, so everything went dark, and when power was restored, the Internet re-connected, and within a few minutes, ddclient updated the IP address at Zoneedit and my servers were addressable on the Internet, so looks like everything is back working properly now.

pi@raspi79:~ $ sudo service ddclient status
● ddclient.service - Update dynamic domain name service entries
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ddclient.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-02-26 00:48:57 GMT; 18h ago
Docs: man:ddclient(8)
Process: 52242 ExecStart=/usr/bin/ddclient -daemon $daemon_interval -syslog -pid /run/ddclient.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 52243 (ddclient - slee)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 8730)
CPU: 37.461s
CGroup: /system.slice/ddclient.service
└─52243 "ddclient - sleeping for 180 seconds"

Feb 26 13:45:44 raspi79 ddclient[55189]: SUCCESS: updating g8jcfsdr.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for g8jcfsdr.g8jcf.uk>
Feb 26 13:45:44 raspi79 ddclient[55191]: SUCCESS: updating mail.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for mail.carneg>
Feb 26 13:45:44 raspi79 ddclient[55193]: SUCCESS: updating mail.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for mail.g8jcf.uk to 90.2>
Feb 26 13:45:44 raspi79 ddclient[55195]: SUCCESS: updating olctl.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for olctl.g8jcf.uk to 90>
Feb 26 13:45:44 raspi79 ddclient[55197]: SUCCESS: updating www.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for www.carnegie>
Feb 26 13:45:45 raspi79 ddclient[55199]: SUCCESS: updating www.g8jcf.carnegie-dixon.com: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for www.g8>
Feb 26 13:45:45 raspi79 ddclient[55201]: SUCCESS: updating www.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for www.g8jcf.uk to 90.242>
Feb 26 13:45:45 raspi79 ddclient[55203]: SUCCESS: updating www.olctl.g8jcf.uk: IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (201: no update required for www.olctl.g8jcf.>
Feb 26 13:45:45 raspi79 ddclient[55205]: SUCCESS: updating : IP address set to 90.242.243.214 (200: All hostnames updated to 90.242.243.214)

Once again, very many thanks for getting my websites seen on the Internet.

Thank You

Peter
 
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