Marcs Updater
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.
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digideth wrote:
Just installed the new update and now I am seeing an entry from your app in my event log every 2 mins.
this is the entry: "The description for Event ID ( 100 ) in Source ( Marcs Updater ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: good **.***.***.***."
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Marc wrote:
The Details tab contains the result, everything else can be ignored, including the message you posted above. Just curious, does the IP differ between the entries?
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digideth wrote:
Same IP every time
I am using windows xp sp3.
I don't have any kind of details tab on my event viewer.... check the screenshot.
So why is you app causing all these event entries? I get one every 2 mins.
There has to be a way to stop it for doing that. I don't want or need your app bloating my event log for no reason.
I have no problem with seeing an event entry every hour when it checks for an ip change.
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tayiper wrote:
Well that's interesting, I don't know why would you get entries every 2 minutes.... Personally I always had Marcs Updater update interval set to 60 minutes (I see no need to be anything less; if I disconnect and connect again, the program itself detects the IP change anyway) and back then I didn't pay attention to entries in the Event Viewer.
Then I decided to make an experiment and so I re-set it to 5 minutes and now I see that entries get written every 5 minutes (kind of what I would expect). Though I am curious anyway, is this normal behavior or if the IP doesn't get changed the entries shouldn't get written at all? Thanks for any reply.
Best regards, Tadej from Slovenia
Here is a link to screenshot of the entries in the Event Viewer written in 5 minutes intervals: http://i.imgur.com/dk7TK.png
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digideth wrote:
hopefully Marc can solve my problem...
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Marc wrote:
I am looking into the issue. This is not expected behavior and I will try to fix it. Be calm. ;-)
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Marc wrote:
Please try the following build: https://updater.marc-hoersken....
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digideth wrote:
Looks like that build fixed the constant event entry problem but now it won't show an icon in the sys tray.
I have to use the control panel to get to all the options.
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digideth wrote:
Bad News
Well its not making IP checks at all now.
I have to open the options and click ok for it to check the ip.
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Marc wrote:
Are you sure about that? Keep in mind: It does not inform you about IP checks, but only about different IP and dynamic DNS updates. The only thing that changed is that it won't show a balloon for the OpenDNS 2.5 + rand(0.5) hours timeout and the general week timeout.
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digideth wrote:
Yes I am 100% sure it is NOT checking for IP updates (set for every hour) at all unless I open the panel and click the "ok" button.
Now the problem with the icon not displaying in the sys tray was resolved after a restart.
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Marc wrote:
Please try the build I just posted above. (Didn't saw this post at that time, sorry.)
http://updater.marc-hoersken.d...
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Marc wrote:
I uploaded another build which has event log messages, please give it a try:
https://updater.marc-hoersken....
(Old entries won't have the new messages and won't be shown in the updatelog.)