Package: ddclient Version: 3.7.3-4.2 Severity: important I've been using ddclient(8) for about 1.5 years, and it's been working fine, to the extent that I haven't had to pay it any attention.
Until 2 weeks ago. I hadn't been able to connect to my internal network from the "outside world" for over a week, and I finally found enough time to check into it tonight. The problem is that my DynDns.org dynamic DNS hostname had not been updated to my current IP address (on my DSL connection from BellSouth/AT&T), so connect attempts at the "stale" address were, of course, failing. I'm guessing that the connection to checkip.dyndns.org hung for some reason, but ddclient appears that it never timed out. System uptime: # w 02:29:43 up 39 days, 4:00, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.09, 0.02 Current date/time: # date Wed Oct 13 02:34:03 EDT 2010 Timestamp on cache file: # ls -ld /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache -rw------- 1 root root 274 Sep 29 05:23 /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache Status of process: # ps ax | grep -i ddclient 2480 ? S 7:29 ddclient - reading from checkip.dyndns.org port 80 Any attempt at network communication should have a time-out limit. A failed/hung socket connection should NOT cause the daemon to hang indefinitely. That's unacceptable behavior for a daemon process (all daemons are pretty much presumed to be capable of running unattended, pretty much indefinitely). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ddclient depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-61 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages ddclient recommends: ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 1.16-1+lenny1 Perl module implementing object or ddclient suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * ddclient/run_daemon: true * ddclient/interface: eth0 * ddclient/protocol: dyndns2 * ddclient/run_ipup: false * ddclient/username: tgi ddclient/newconfigfmt: * ddclient/names: tgi.dyndns.org ddclient/modifiedconfig: * ddclient/server: members.dyndns.org * ddclient/daemon_interval: 5m * ddclient/service: www.dyndns.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org