Hi, i recently switched from using a wget-cronjob to ddns-scripts and luci-app-ddns. A couple of days ago i unplugged my router for a couple of minutes and today i found that my ddns entries where outdated. What happened was that the default 5 retries failed and the whole ddns service just died without my knowledge.
I think the default number of retries should be infinite. With the current defaults a 5min connection loss will just make the script give up forever. One will have to log in and restart the service every time that happens. And even worse you might have to realize the problem the hard way, being away from home and not being able to figure out your IP. That default behaviour is probably not what most users would expect. My suggestion is to change the default of retry_count to 0. If that is not a good idea i would like to understand why. In case the reason are concerns about traffic/load or getting blocked by the provider, i would suggest exponential backoff instead of a fixed retry frequency. Let me know what you guys think. I will provide patches should we agree on changing that. Henning _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
