[luci-app-ddns] unnecessarily requires <query> in url string

Procedure: set up an DDNS provider as “-custom-” provider and filling out the “cutom update-url” field like this: http://some.domain./RANDOMTOKEN123/

Result: get the error: "openwrt Custom update-URL: <QUERY> missing / required" and can’t finfish the setup.

Explanation: luci-app-ddns expects the update-url to contain a “?”-symbol as inicator for a query. but some ddns-services don’t use the query part for updating the ip.

Expected Result: can finish the setup even without a “?” in the update-url.

Workaround: just put a “?” at the end of the update-url, as it shouldn’t matter. so it looks like: http://some.domain./RANDOMTOKEN123/?

affected dyndns service: afraid.org

lede version: LEDE Reboot 17.01.2 r3435-65eec8bd5f’

[james-knippes]

I’m not sure if I completely understand your question. With the randomized Token there is no IP you can set. It’s autodetected at the afraid server. With the other methods e.g. “username and password inline” you can set the IP in the URL.

I think all the old update hosts are still valid. But they also have new ones. So it seems afraid.org has two major versions for their dynamic dns interface.

The first (old) Version supports a randomized URL with nothing to configure. It looks like this: https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxr4nd0mT0kenxxxxxxx= and a second (old) method is this: http://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@freedns.afraid.org/nic/update?hostname=[DOMAIN]&myip=[IP]

Then there are four “new” Methods in the “updated iterface v2”: Method 1: “Randomized Update Token” http://sync.afraid.org/u/r4nd0mT0ken/ Method 2: “Username and Password, inline” ( IP may be optional? , hadn’t time to test it ) http://sync.afraid.org/u/?u=[USERNAME]&p=[PASSWORD&h=[DOMAIN]&ip=[IP] Method 3: “Username and Password” http://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@sync.afraid.org/u/?h=[DOMAIN]&ip=[IP] Method 4: “/nic/update” http://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@sync.afraid.org/nic/update?hostname=[DOMAIN]&myip=[IP]

That are all methods i found on their website. Just ask if you need aditional information/help.

[vollmann-ariel]

It’s still not working. I did exactly as @james-knippes did but the ddns server did not update my IP. Finally I found a workaround to solve it: In advanced settings I selected as IP address source the option URL and I put the URL “http://sync.afraid.org/u/R4nd0MT0KEN/” in the “URL to detect [IPv4]” text field. It finally worked, but is not a neat solution at all.

Thanks guys.