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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Tala Pantas wrote:
hi marc! really appreciate this program, i was looking for a way to run opendns updater as a service and this one pops right in the google search matches. hopefully a manual update button can be added as well since i am using a
mobile usb broadband
connected to a dhcp network of our isp and it will just give a "%1" error the first time it runs and wait 5 mins to run the ip update again. only after 5 mins will my ip get updated and 3 mins for opendns to push the content filtering rules all over. perhaps you can just add a sleep interval of like 5 to 10 sec from the time it detects an active internet connection until it could push the ip address a dhcp server has assigned to a network adapter? all in all it completely replaced my opendns updater and im a completely happy user right now! haha
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tayiper wrote:
Do you use Marcs Updater on a personal computer, right? If that's the case I am in an identical situation (I got a my USB Mobile Broadband modem (Huawei) + Vodafone Mobile Broadband program combo from my mobile phone provider, connecting to Internet through its "mobile internet" network (3G), and ISP's DHCP servers assign the IP for the network card each time I connect).
You just need to run the "GUI component" (single-click on the system tray icon, of course if you haven't disabled it) and (after window pops-up) just click on the OK button. If you can do that then this will force the immediate IP update.
Hope this help, Tadej from Slovenia
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Tala Pantas wrote:
yea i'm using it on my laptop and it was a huawei broadband too
shame that i didn't notice that until you mentioned it, checked on ip logs and it indeed was updatingi thought the program was written to notify ip updates everytime it was minimized to systray. haha! my bad
thank you Tadej Peršič!
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Marc wrote:
I am looking into this problem. It seems like there is a problem with the timer-based IP-check.