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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:28:33 -0600
To: "Kathy Quinlan" <katinka@magestower.com>,
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Subject: RE: ddclient and Dynamic DNS servers
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Using cron seems redundant when ddclient does everything needed.... when
run as a daemon. But, whatever works best for your situation....

At 06:10 PM 4.3.2002 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
>
>Thanks to all who responded, I have a solution, which works, wish I had read
>about the cron option before lol ;o)
>
>OK
>
>I start pppoe, which once it has brought the IP session up calls ppp.linkup
>which calls a script IP-up which calls ddclient (long way around doing
>things, but trying to call the script from PPP.conf fired it up to soon and
>no IP had been assigned. tried from ppp.linkup and it gave an error, but
>this way I can add to my script :o)
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Kat.
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