Ddclient gives warning "cannot connect to checkip.dyndns.org" about ddclient

[ajm1635]

Alternatives:
http://bot.whatismyipaddress.com/
A description of the service can be found here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/api

http://ifconfig.me/ip

https://api.myip.com

Oracle is making major changes at Dyn so I am not sure if the checkip.dyndns.org will continue to be available. The standard DNS product will be end of life on May 31, 2020. Oracle has stated the Pro product will continue as is.
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/technologies/ecommerce-customer-faq.html

[petersjt014]

Looks like this has happened before (#41). I've added something on that issue that might fix this (by moving to a new site).

[SuperSandro2000]

Why can't you get your IP address from your router?

[ajm1635]

Why can't you get your IP address from your router?

There are routers which do not make the information (easily) available so ddclient has supported web-based external public IP retrieval since the beginning.

[jgwallace3]

As @ajm1635, indicated, my router doesn't provide the IP info. I've switched to "web=bot.whatismyipaddress.com" and that is working well.

Curiously, I still get the "WARNING: found neither ipv4 nor ipv6 address" message.
(But NOT the "cannot connect" one now :))

[ajm1635]

Curiously, I still get the "WARNING: found neither ipv4 nor ipv6 address" message.
(But NOT the "cannot connect" one now :))

Are you sure that is not an old message? Looking at the code it appears the external ip would not get set in the case where that error message is emitted. Otherwise try running with debug enabled.

[jgwallace3]

Sorry for a false alert. That warning is only generated when I run "ddclient -daemon=0 -query -debug". If comes right after the 'use=if' statements.

Normal operation is NOT giving those messages.