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Hello everyone,

I am currently running DD-WRT v23 SP1 firmware on my Linksys WRT54GL router. Because of my current network config, I have a need to update my ChangeIP host (dynamic dns accout) via my router rather than client software like HomeBeacon.

I was wonder if someone could show me how to set up DD-WRT to work with ChangeIP.com. I tried reading the syntax stuff in the help section and none seem to work.

The DD-WRT firmware has a custom DDNS section that has:
1) \"DNS System\" field box - max. 32 chars.
2) \"User Name\" field box - max. 32 chars.
3) \"Password\" field box - not sure how many chars.
4) \"Hostname\" field box - max 48 chars.
5) \"Additional DDNS Options\" field box - max 100+ chars.

DD-WRT uses INADYN (see h**p://inadyn.ina-tech.net/) as its DDNS daemon).

I've tried typing in different things in each box and either the box is not big enough or the router will not update anything. (I have seen this router and DD-WRT work with dyndns.org - but I would like to use ChangeIP.com instead).

Hope this is not too confusing. Thanks in advance.



Jon

here is a page on their wiki that shows exactly how to configure the settings:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DD ... ANGEIP.COM

I'm using dd-wrt v24sp1 generic standard, followed the faq instructions here (same as the wiki mentioned in this thread) to configure custom ddns setup via the dd-wrt gui.

The inadyn process will not start, it gives error W:INADYN: Main: Error 'RC_DYNDNS_INVALID_OPTION' (0x44)

A 'cat' of the inadyn.conf file shows as follows (formatted on separate lines here for readability)

--background --dyndns_system custom@http_svr_basic_auth
-u <mylogin> -p <mypass> -a <myhostname.mychosendomain.tld>
--update_period_sec 360 --forced_update_period 864000
--log_file /tmp/ddns/ddns.log --cache_dir /tmp/ddns --exec ddns_success
--dyndns_server_name nic.changeip.com
--dyndns_server_url /nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=
--ip_server_name ip.changeip.com

I am able to configure dd-wrt to update other dynamic dns services, however, none of the ones I tried make use of the 'custom' specification as ChangeIP does.

The version of inadyn reported with --version parameter is 1.96-ADV.

Please point me to anything I have overlooked, or if you have any suggestions on what I might try? I did look in the dd-wrt forums, and did not find any indication this is 'broken', might a different syntax be needed?

Thanks in advance for any help and info, regards,
--appyface

Try without the last paramter:

--ip_server_name ip.changeip.com

and see if that starts. We had someone email last week with the same issue. I don't know if it's a broken new version in regards to that parameter or what. Report back with findings.

Thank you very much, that did indeed take care of the issue.

Best regards,
--appyface

Let me review their new code, maybe they changed the parameter or something. Will report back shortly.

Just to update you, all is still working fine here after making the change you proposed.

I'm sure you haven't had time to check deeper into this or you would have reported back. But if you wouldn't mind leaving this on your 'todo list' as a low priority item, I'm definitely interested in your findings if/when you have the opportunity to investigate.

Thanks again, best regards,
--appyface