On 2016-12-03 03:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-12-03 01:45, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
This utterly confuses me. I don't have a domain name! I want to create one, and it is a single word, not dots, to be the prefix to “.dyndns24.ch”
you are trying to set up a domain on dns24.ch, not dyndns24.ch. fix the names and maybe you will have better luck :)
Must be typo on the instructions PDF.
No, the administration page is in dns24.ch, but the free domains are something.dyndns24.ch
The question still remains, it is asking for two names separated by a dot. Why? What names?
It doesn't give examples of what it is wanting.
I tried to ignore that page, and instead setup "basic" dynDNS, creating an invented hostname, so that I get "hostname.dyndns24.ch The instructions say that the updates are done by browsing to this address: http://userid:password@dyn.dns24.ch/update? hostname=hostname&type=type&data=data It is a long line. The userid is my email address, so it contains an "@" symbol. There is another "@" after the password. Can that work? :-? Well, it works in firefox, after several trials, but not with wget, says "bad port number". curl does work, because there is an example in the FAQ: curl --anyauth -u userid:password http://dyn.dns24.ch/update/?hostname=example.dyndns24.ch&type=A&data=127.0.0.1 Guided by that one, the equivalent for wget is: wget --user=... --password=.... wget "http://dyn.dns24.ch/update?....." The instructions do not mention that the "hostname" is the full hostname. This took me half an hour or more to find out. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)