WBS now want you to pay extra for using a router !!!

[Roman4604]

You guys are gonna think I'm a conspiracy loon ...

My DLink router is now authenticating, but not all is working ... it refuses to update dyndns.org.

So I looked up their update spec ....

http://www.dyndns.com/developers/specs/syntax.html

... and started playing around in a web browser. The minimum you need for an update is ...

http://members.dyndns.org/nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=yourhost.ourdomain.d

the ip addr will be read from the updating http connection. Now if you do this in a browser an auth login/passwd box will popup and you have to enter your dyndns.org usrname & passwd. This works perfectly from IE via my iBurst connection.

Unfortunately since routers have to update in the backround they cant authenticate via the popup, and they therefore add your username & password to the URL as such ...

http://usernameassword@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?system=dyndns&hostname=yourhost.ourdomain.d

Now this URL syntax, it seems to me, is being blocked by WBS's proxy server. Any URL with a syntax of ....

xxx@members.dyndns.org/nic/update

gets immediately blocked (no pause) ... remove the @ sign and it goes through. So has anyone else noticed your dyndns via dyndns.org is not updating? ... or am I going loon!

 

[mikeysa]

faaarking finally on via the router again

 

[nocilah]

But in all honesty I do not see them enforcing something this stupid.

like the smtp thing ?

 

[seburn]

rotfl!!! Thats why everyone believes these theories, we have past records to look at, the smtp thing!

 

[UnUnOctium]

lol i had no problem with "bash#: adsl-start"

 

[alchamy]

like the smtp thing ?

Good point