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From: 5p9 <5p9@ipfire.org>
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Subject: Re: Introducing DDNS
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:20:36 +0200
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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,
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> this is a post to update you all about the recent developments regarding
> the support for the various upcoming dynamic DNS providers.
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> Rationale
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> 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.
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> DDNS
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The source for the new DDNS tool can be found over here:
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>   http://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dddns.git;a=3Dsummary
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> or on GitHub
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>   https://github.com/ipfire/ddns
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> were you can send us pull requests for supporting new providers and so
> on.
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> Bug reports go to the usual place:
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>   https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=3DDDNS%20Updat=
er
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> 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.
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> We appreciate any contribution and as always hope to get some feedback
> back from the community!
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> Best,
> -Michael
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> [1] http://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-2.x.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Dsrc/scripts/setd=
dns.pl;h=3D5e77fce5c024a3f17ba4c892a94abfe95845e8c6;hb=3DHEAD
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