I’m hosting my domain myself on a dedicated root server, and I wanted my Internet router to automatically update a hostname in my own domain (in a designated dynamic zone) with my current public IP. With OpenWRT this was easily accomplished. I used these instructions as a starting point.
When trying to check whether everything was set up correctly I always got some strange error from the following command:
# ACTION=update INTERFACE=wan /sbin/hotplug-call iface
It turned out that the following statement
config_get ipaddr wan ipaddr
did not return the currently assigned IP address in my case, but just an empty response, so I got the following error message:
could not read rdata syntax error
(For testing I hooked a spare router with a fresh OpenWRT install with the WAN port into my LAN, and configured the WAN interface to receive its IP address via DHCP from out of the LAN. In “production” the WAN interface receives its IP via PPPoE.)
Some friendly guy in the OpenWRT forum suggested I try the following instead:
. /lib/functions/network.sh network_get_ipaddr ipaddr wan
And indeed this worked well.
One reply on “OpenWRT and DNS UPDATE”
I had a strange problem with dynamic DNS updates on a router I flashed with OpenWRT’s unstable distro “Barrier Breaker” — instead of the DNS record be updated I just got an error message, but it was totally non-obvious what went wrong:
Communication with server failed: operation canceled
I used the debug
-doption tonsupdate, and this gave me the clue I needed: Strangelynsupdatetried to contact my DNS server via its IPv6 address, even though my network and Internet provider aren’t yet IPv6-capable:Sending update to 2a01:4f8:xx:xxxx::x#53
Outgoing update query:
On Attitude Adjustment this hasn’t been a problem. My “hacky” solution (or rather “work-around”) to this was to simply use the IPv4 address instead of the hostname to force use of IPv4 communications.