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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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anonymous-283419079

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N45 wrote:

Hello, after upgrading to latest version Build 253 2011-07-29 PB460X64, without putting beta, do not see the history of IPs


mback2k

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Marc wrote:

Hi, is the update log completly empty? The update log has been moved to the Windows event log, so only new updates will be shown there.


anonymous-293052017

Posted on

N45 wrote:

Hi, I've solved it by installing the 243 version, then updated to the present.Thanks for the program I use to update my computer 4 domains from "" dnsomatic.com ""


anonymous-295311916

Posted on

N45 wrote:

Rectified .. The problem was that I had stopped windows service events.


tayiper

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tayiper wrote:

Sorry for interrupting, but can I ask why would you do that (i.e. stop the Windows Events service)? As first, this particular service is quite an important one, ans secondly, stopping (or worse yet, disabling) Windows services - if you're not 100% sure what you're doing - is a big no-no.


anonymous-305831145

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N45 wrote:

Well, the event log, is used to diagnose system activity and diagnose problems. Turn it off and everything works fine, did not use this service until now. hehe


tayiper

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tayiper wrote:

Yeah that's true, you can normally use your computer without this service running. But having it turned off did cause a "problem" in this particular case, right? Sure it was a minor problem, but with some other service... I am just saying that you might spend countless hours trying to find a cause of some issue (which is a result of having some service not running). And what's the motivation behind it (disabling services)? Saving precious RAM? This one at least is invalid since if the service is not used (but it is running) it's paged-out to pagefile and doesn't occupy any RAM.