Much of this post is a rehash of an earlier post, except now I have got it all working (including the startup at boot time, and restarting if it fails). Please not that if you have support from Astaro these changes will make it null and void.

Just to reiterate what was said previously. Astaro does NOT yet support CUSTOM DynDNS. Below is a method to provide a work around. Follow these steps.

1. Make a copy of the dyndns.conf file. This file is in /etc. Make a copy called ez-ipupdate.conf

2. Using vi edit the ez-ipupdate.conf file to look like this (replacing the info with your own of course):

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>service-type=dyndns-custom
user=usernameassword
host=mydomain.com.au,www.mydomain.com.au,mail.mydomain.com.au
mx=mail.mydomain.com.au
interface=ppp0
max-interval=86400
cache-file=/opt/tmpfs/ez-ipupdate.cache
daemon</pre><hr />

3. Make sure dyndns is turned on in webmin.

4. Edit the startup file. The startup file is in the /var/mdw/scripts directory and called dyndns. Change the line that reads ARGS=" -c /etc/dyndns.conf" to read ARGS=" -c /etc/ez-ipupdate.conf"

5. That is all the changes. Now you can either restart your box or just kill the ez-ipupdate process and let the selfmonitor restart it.

As said months ago it would be nice if Astaro would include the extra options in webmin as it is a nobraineer kind of change. But I guess its not up there on there list of priorities.

Anyway, hope this helps someone out there..... and remember to have fun....

Can I put this in my web faq?

Hi Simon,

would you mind telling the address of your web faq?

techno.kid

http://www.sputcorp.com/asl

Simon,

No problem dude. Feel free to use it.

Obviously, these instructions only apply to setups where the real world ip is at the external interface of the firewall. For those of us who have a adsl router outside the firewall, it doesn't work.
Unless I am missing something. How do you get dyndns daemon to send the ip from the other side of the router ?

You can't. You will need to run an app on a machine behind the firewall that uses web based IP detection.

There is a way to do it: just use ddclient!

ddclient does not check the ip address of the interface but calls a website which shows the ip address assigned by the provider to the router - so if this one changes ddclient updates the e.g. dyndns.org address.

Hint: do not run ddclient as a daemon since I made the experience that it crashes from time to time.
Better have it called by cron every 5 minutes...

techno.kid

It should be noted that if you use a DSL router then even if you get your right address advertised things will probably not work as you would want. This is because the router is doing NAT as well as the firewall. This double NAT generally breaks everything when it comes to getting inbound services to work. If your using a proper firewall to do the NAT then you do not want to be using a DSL router, just a modem.

Hi all,

I´d like to come back to the idea of "FAQ for ASL hacks" like Simon Shaw has.

I do not want to copy Simons idea/work but extend it with a more "flexible" design.
I have phpmyfaq.de running for several other things... so I´d like to discuss this idea with you "hackers" :-)

The advantage of phpmyfaq is that you can have different editors who can maintain the site plus the posibilty for the readers to comment the given information.

So if there is an interest in this an Simon likes the idea too, I´d provide a link to this page.

techno.kid