Re: Introducing DDNS

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Hi Michael & Stefan,

thanks for your Work! Looking forward to the first test with the new
feature :)

Best,
Thomas

Am 25.06.2014 12:21, schrieb Michael Tremer:
> Hello,
> 
> this is a post to update you all about the recent developments regarding
> the support for the various upcoming dynamic DNS providers.
> 
> 
> Rationale
> 
> Some of the major dynamic DNS providers stopped their free services or
> made them unusable so that people started searching for alternatives. In
> IPFire 2, a script called setddns.pl [1] is responsible for updating the
> dynamic DNS records. This script has grown over the last couple of
> months and if you have looked into it you will have noticed that it has
> become from ugly to almost un-maintainable. The decision that we don't
> want to take this mess with us into the next generation of IPFire was
> already made many years ago.
> 
> 
> DDNS
> 
> A project called ddns was started which is a pure Python client that is
> much more flexible, cleanly rewritten and easily extensible. It is
> cross-platform, cross-distribution and does not need any third-party
> python modules.
> 
> The basics already written years ago, Stefan Schantl and I worked on
> making this ready for IPFire 2 and added all the providers that are
> currently supported by setddns.pl and ez-ipupdate.
> 
> The source for the new DDNS tool can be found over here:
> 
>   http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ddns.git;a=summary
> 
> or on GitHub
> 
>   https://github.com/ipfire/ddns
> 
> were you can send us pull requests for supporting new providers and so
> on.
> 
> Bug reports go to the usual place:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=DDNS%20Updater
> 
> There is no fixed release schedule for this, but we are pretty sure that
> this won't take long until DDNS arrives in IPFire 2. That means that we
> won't take any patches for the setddns.pl script that add support for
> new providers any more.
> 
> We appreciate any contribution and as always hope to get some feedback
> back from the community!
> 
> Best,
> -Michael
> 
> [1] http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=blob;f=src/scripts/setddns.pl;h=5e77fce5c024a3f17ba4c892a94abfe95845e8c6;hb=HEAD
> 
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