Does ez-ipupdate work with Asus DDNS?

[diyguy]

since the jerks at DynDNS have decided to pull the plug on their free service, I was looking to use the Asus's DDNS. What configuration do I need to enter in the conf file for ez-ipdate to work in conjunction with the service from Asus ? I've tried asus asuscomm but nothing seems to work.


with DynDNS I was using something like this

service-type=
user=
host=
interface=
notify-email=

 

[thelonelycoder]

"The Jerks"

 

[RMerlin]

since the jerks at DynDNS have decided to pull the plug on their free service, I was looking to use the Asus's DDNS. What configuration do I need to enter in the conf file for ez-ipdate to work in conjunction with the service from Asus ? I've tried asus asuscomm but nothing seems to work.


with DynDNS I was using something like this

service-type=
user=
host=
interface=
notify-email=

Asus DDNS only works with their modified client AFAIK, it's not supported by generic DDNS updaters.

 

[mrvain]

For those who wonder how to refresh Asus DynDNS status from the command line it is how to do it:

ez-ipupdate -h your_name.asuscomm.com -s ns1.asuscomm.com -S dyndns -i eth0 -A 1 >& /dev/null

I put it into crontab as sometimes it does not update the IP after router start-up.

 

[diyguy]

For those who wonder how to refresh Asus DynDNS status from the command line it is how to do it:

ez-ipupdate -h your_name.asuscomm.com -s ns1.asuscomm.com -S dyndns -i eth0 -A 1 >& /dev/null

I put it into crontab as sometimes it does not update the IP after router start-up.

thanks for this mrvain! How did you figure this out ?

 

[mrvain]

thanks for this mrvain! How did you figure this out ?

I concluded the syntax from some Asus source code files available on googlecode.com: http://lamadanu-latest.googlecode.com/git-history/4d8ea9a0b3a055b77b18a0eed38aab6476a200e8/trunk/user/rc/services_ex.c

doSystem("ez-ipupdate -h %s -s ns1.asuscomm.com -S dyndns -i %s -A 1", ddns_hnm, wan_ifname);

 

[diyguy]

I concluded the syntax from some Asus source code files available on googlecode.com: http://lamadanu-latest.googlecode.com/git-history/4d8ea9a0b3a055b77b18a0eed38aab6476a200e8/trunk/user/rc/services_ex.c

doSystem("ez-ipupdate -h %s -s ns1.asuscomm.com -S dyndns -i %s -A 1", ddns_hnm, wan_ifname);

Interesting! Do you know what the -A argument is for ? I am trying to see if I can create a conf file for this.

 

[Bobcat00]

I was looking to use the Asus's DDNS.

I considered that, but ended up using no-ip.com, and got a free xxxxx.no-ip.biz address. The RT-N66U updates it automatically, and I'll be able to use it if I switch to another brand of router.

 

[mrvain]

Interesting! Do you know what the -A argument is for ? I am trying to see if I can create a conf file for this.

I think it is Asus-specific parameter. If you don't specify it it asks for DynDNS username and password.

I considered that, but ended up using no-ip.com, and got a free xxxxx.no-ip.biz address. The RT-N66U updates it automatically, and I'll be able to use it if I switch to another brand of router.

I don't like no-ip.com as their free service requires you to log in periodically to keep your account. You can also go for freedns.afraid.org, I put script for it in another thread: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?p=123651#post123651

I use two different DynDNS providers in case one does not update entries for some reason.

 

[Bobcat00]

I don't like no-ip.com as their free service requires you to log in periodically to keep your account. You can also go for freedns.afraid.org, I put script for it in another thread: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?p=123651#post123651

Even dyndns required a manual login to keep the name from expiring.

What I really want is for the router to update pairNIC automatically.

 

[vprasinos]

For those who wonder how to refresh Asus DynDNS status from the command line it is how to do it:

ez-ipupdate -h your_name.asuscomm.com -s ns1.asuscomm.com -S dyndns -i eth0 -A 1 >& /dev/null

I put it into crontab as sometimes it does not update the IP after router start-up.

It is a fact it takes several hours to update the asuscomm dns with my ip when I reboot my RT-N66U.

Should we use "sleep" to wait for the router to get the IP from the modem before applying this command for this to work properly? Maybe the reason the asuscomm DNS service (or this script) sometimes (most of the times actually) doesn't work at router reboot is because it needs to wait for a WAN ip from the modem...

 

[lbradio]

Why not use dnsomatic in combination with f.i. noip.com or a simular service.
In an earlier post I discribed howto update DNS every week, and after an IPchange.

I use noip.com and until now didn't have to update this specific account.


http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showpost.php?p=122096&postcount=6

 

[diyguy]

Well after working for a while today I am getting the error invalid IP format.

Any ideas?


/usr/sbin/ez-ipupdate -h myhost.asuscomm.com -s ns1.asuscomm.com -S dyndns -i eth0 -A 1
ez-ipupdate Version 3.0.11b5
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Angus Mackay.
read_input ret: 1
read_input ret: 1
Invalid IP format.