Description of problem: For a few years, I've been randomly trying to figure out why my router locks me out for minutes at a time. Having to replace MANY devices recently destroyed by lightning, I've finally been forced to track this issue down -- to a COMMA (,) from quite a while ago (2017): $ ll /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf -rw------- 1 ddclient ddclient 6774 Dec 19 2017 /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time I login to my router Steps to Reproduce: 1. login to router 2. perform any activity 3. session is killed with IP RST and won't resume for several minutes /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf contains: use=fw, fw=192.168.1.1/Status_Internet.asp, fw-login=admin, <=== This & previous commas ignored by ddclient fw-password=mylongpassword, <=== This COMMA is INCLUDED in the router login attempts which fail authentication repeatedly, causing router lockout fw-skip='IP Address' In addition to the above flaw (extraneous comma), there's more old data: server=freedns.afraid.org \ login=myuserid \ password=mypassword \ pfortin.mooo.com <== an ANCIENT domain which I haven't used in years So... the question is: WHAT created this file? And from what input(s)?
Posted info on DD-WRT forum at https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1239970#1239970
Hi, thanks reporting this. As I don't know at all about this ddclient.conf file, it belongs to ddclient-3.9.1-1.mga8 package. Assigning to CC'd packager if he can help on this.
Source RPM: (none) => ddclient-3.9.1-1.mga8.src.rpmCC: (none) => eatdirt, ouaurelien
Default or sample ddclient.conf file is shipped with ddclient package, but setting up the configuration is up to sysadmin. The input is coming from between the chair and the display. I'm not aware about having any tools in distro to alter the configuration. Using Webmin with external ddclient module it might be possible.
After grepping the default configuration in mga7, mga8 and cauldron I don't see any extra commas after fw-password: # grep fw-password /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf #fw-login=admin, fw-password=XXXXXX # FW login and password ## To obtain an IP address from FW status page (using fw-login, fw-password) We don't have any entries for freedns.afraid.org either.
Thanks Jani. Closing this.
Resolution: (none) => INVALIDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
While I have no recollection of ever using/knowing of ddclient -- the important message here is that getting locked out of a remote system (router in this case) may be due to some other process causing a DoA (denial of access). Thanks for the quick response.
Resolution: INVALID => FIXED