Joined: 06 Jun 2020 Posts: 22 Location: Oak Harbor, Washington, USA
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 20:22 Post subject:
Dale: the web UI's hostname input field 99 char limit is a separate issue, which I raised a couple of years back when I first ran into it. It's only a UI issue, and as a workaround as I was able to poke the values into the conf via nvram commands. As I would rarely need to update those values, that was OK with me, but I noted it as a UI error that others might run into.
Sure, it's possible that dd-wrt's inadyn conf implementation may vary from the documentation I've found or been provided. In that case, I may as well say, "God's will" and call it a day, because if docs don't reflect reality, it may as well be a religion based on faith. IOW, it's a waste of time for someone in my position to devote any time to trying to use or fix things. I just am not going to go read the source, I'm not at that skill level anymore, and this is not mission-critical for me; other options are available.
I can only use functional tools I can find or make; non-functional tools (docs that don't reflect reality) are sort of worse than useless. I understand the limitations of volunteer groups and nobody wants to update docs.
I can document problems I find, like this one, but I can't reasonably speculate to the cause and any speculation is worthless anyway. I can say that it doesn't work (for me) and show my work.
Joker: thanks for that expansion. I appreciate the try. _________________ Regards,
Al Savage
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R7800 x2
No change to behavior, though . Results on the attached screenshot.
I've specified DynDNS for the Enable Service preset for DDNS provider. In one of the examples for Custom at the link you provided, they show a Custom example using dyn.com (pretending that the DynDNS preset doesn't exist) and I don't see a variance from my inadyn.conf, other than the possibly extraneous quotes that we're inserting. _________________ Regards,
Al Savage
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R7800 x2
Joined: 31 Jul 2021 Posts: 2146 Location: All over YOUR webs
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:10 Post subject:
You dont need to add quotes in UI (the UI already quotes the entries), only in CLI because its UNIX-like/Linux.
I dont know how DD-WRT is handling the curly brackets however. Will need to test this out today after the recent changes.
Also please do not start stop inadyn via CLI (unless you use the correct syntax to read the correct config file inadyn --check-config -f /tmp/ddns/inadyn.conf), else from drop down select disabled and click apply to stop service, the select the correct provider, setup and click apply to start service.
Multiple host should work like this....
However, it does not work at the moment because the GUI automatically quotes the hostname and without quotes no special characters can be parsed
Also our implementation for multiple hosts will not require comma separated hostname entries on the next public build (so it will deviate from the inadyn docs) it will be space separated only and the comma is generated on the fly.
Joined: 06 Jun 2020 Posts: 22 Location: Oak Harbor, Washington, USA
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:18 Post subject:
Thanks for all this. I was not adding any quotes; they came from the UI :/
I will wait for a newer public version that incorporates 50827 (to allow the UI to accept more than 99 chars for hostnames) and 50835 (better parsing of hostname input field). _________________ Regards,
Al Savage
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R7800 x2
. Results on the attached screenshot.
