Thank you everybody for the information. This is for home use and both ddclient and ipcheck look more than sufficient for my needs.
Regards, Laurence On Apr 16, 2012 5:45 PM, "Ingo Schwarze" <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Johan Beisser wrote on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 09:18:22AM -0700: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Laurence Rochfort > > <laurence.rochf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Is there a DynDNS client for OpenBSD? > > > Rolled my own in Python a while back. There are a few that're utter > > overkill for "simple updater." > > If IP changes are rare for you and just want to update your IP manually > now and then, using the web interface most providers offer is probably > sufficient, and you don't even need your own script. > > If you want to run the client as a daemon, i'd advise against > rolling your own. Most providers block accounts that update too > frequently, and getting the logic right to prevent excessive > updates is tricky. > > My experience is mostly with ddclient; i have contributed a few > patches that were accepted upstream. The maintainer is a nice > guy, not very actively supporting ddclient, but not letting it > rot completely either. For home use, it is clearly good enough. > For enterprise use, it is usable (if you are willing to help > and fix the occasional bug), but certainly not great. > > However, the code quality is positively revolting. I have rarely > seen Perl code looking that ugly. Still, as it is a small code base, > you can find your way around it. But hacking into it is not fun, > and if you value reliability a lot, you should probably look into > other options, too, and compare.
