[opensuse] ddclient error

I posted this in the forums, but the forums seem to be down now and I am hoping that someone may be able to help quickly before I head off to work today. I hope I am not breaking protocol by doing this, but here goes. I enabled ddclient, to update my ddns on freedns.afraid.org. I have to use ddclient or some other application on my pc and cannot use ddns on my router, because my router's built in ddns is pre-set to dynDNS.org or TZO, and it doesn't allow any other hosting. I was in a konsole later and it said I had new system mail, so I opened it up. Here is what the contents of one of them was (sanitized): [code]

From root@tribaltrekker.site Tue Aug 27 19:57:55 2013 Return-Path: X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: root@tribaltrekker.site Received: by tribaltrekker.site (Postfix, from userid 0) id 668E665F85; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:57:55 +0800 (PHT) To: root@tribaltrekker.site Subject: status report from ddclient@tribaltrekker.site Message-Id: <20130827115755.668E665F85@tribaltrekker.site> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:57:55 +0800 (PHT) From: root@tribaltrekker.site (root)

WARNING: file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip' = '' WARNING: SENT: https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?MmNWYUQ2eDhrTUU1cDdYOFd4Zkk6MT... WARNING: REPLIED: HTTP/1.1 200 OK WARNING: Server: nginx WARNING: Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:58:10 GMT WARNING: Content-Type: text/plain WARNING: Content-Length: 47 WARNING: Connection: close WARNING: Vary: Accept-Encoding WARNING: WARNING: ERROR: Address xxx.xxx.xxx.61 has not changed. FAILED: updating xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com: Invalid reply. regards, ddclient@tribaltrekker.site (version 3.8.1) [/code] I have been getting this system mail every 5 minutes because I have the timer set in /etc/ddclient.conf to 5 minutes. However, when I did look at my my IP address on my router, which did change, my subdomain that I chose on freedns had also updated correctly. So it tells me it is not updating, but apparently it is? Or is it telling me something else? In any case, some googling pointed that this could be an error in a perl library for SSL. So just to check I tried setting the ssl=no parameter in /etc/ddclient.conf, but I am still getting the error. So I set it back to ssl=yes. So I don't know if this has anything to do with SSL. I checked, and the version of the perl library that I have is: [code] # rpm -qa | grep perl | grep SSL perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.55-4.1.1.noarch [/code] The file that supposedly has the error is as follows: [code] /var/cache/ddclient # cat ddclient.cache ## ddclient-3.8.1 ## last updated at Tue Aug 27 20:23:06 2013 (1377606186) atime=1377606186,host=xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com,ip=,mtime=0,status=failed,warned-min-error-interval=0,warned-min-interval=0,wtime=0 xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com [/code] One other question - I saw that some people that had a similar error in the past said it caused their hosting service to block them because it was updating all the time. Isn't ddclient supposed to be checking all the time anyway? I have it set for every 5 minutes. Why would a hosting service like dynDNS or freedns.afraid.org block someone if their pc had some kind of internal error when it went to update the ip on their subdomain? What I am really wondering on that is if I should disable this service altogether when I am not using it, so as not to cause problems for the hosting company. I don't know enough about how this works to know the answers to that. Any help would be great! -- George Olson Box #1: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org