Marcs Updater - Issue - March 7, 2011

There have been some reports about issues with the Updater not updating anymore. Please try the latest beta version and switch to another IP Check provider instead of the previous default dnsomatic.com. For some reason they are rate-limiting the number of requests to their service. The new IP Check provider selection allows you to choose another provider in such cases. You can test the functionality with the new "Test" panel.

If you want to add a custom provider to the unstable testing version, store a JSON file like the following under %PROGRAMDATA%\Marcs Updater\ServiceProviders\dyndns.json:

{
    "name": "DynDNS.org (Test)",
    "endpoint": "https://members.dyndns.org/nic/update",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryString": "hostname={HOSTNAME}&myip={MYIP}",
    "dataPayload": "",
    "defaults": {
        "username": "test",
        "password": "test",
        "hostname": "test1.customtest.dyndns.org"
    }
}

Supported query and payload tags are {USERNAME}, {PASSWORD}, {HOSTNAME} and {MYIP}. Restart the background service and foreground application to apply any changes.

Issue created on March 7, 2011

Posted on March 7, 2011 3:28 p.m.

Keertoliver wrote:

Im using the updater quite a long time now, but recently i noticed the update service stops working.
Ip updates are no longer sent. Restarting the application doesn't work, since it doesn't react (very slow). I need to restart the computer in order to make it function again.

I'm on xp sp1, using Build 233 2011-02-11 PB 451 x86
This computer is always online, never shuts down. Last update was 27 feb, 14:45, result was good.
After this date no more ip updates

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Posted on March 11, 2011 6:33 p.m.

Marc wrote:

Can you check the CPU, memory and handle usage of the processes using task manager? This would help me to identify the problem, if it's really the performance and not a network/timing related problem.

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