Comments on: OpenDNS Updater offers dynamic IP update for Macs

By: EasyWC

EasyWC — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:07:12 +0000

I’m one of those totally non-tech mac people.

You wrote “it will be useful”… but HOW? Exactly what will this do? How will it help or improve what?

Sorry — like I said, it’s all greek to me — can anyone explain in layperson’s terms?

thanks!

By: Šime

Šime — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:24:30 +0000

Latest version of Tomato firmware for Linksys WRT routers supports OpenDNS dynamic IP updating. Works great for me.

By: Patrick Williford

Patrick Williford — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:20:17 +0000

Thanks a lot Zach! Now I don’t have to keep bugging the DD-WRT people to try and include this in their router software for my WRT54G.

By: Zach Weigand

Zach Weigand — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:06:50 +0000

Sorry Ron, I should have given the solution to the problem as well. If you put %20 in place of the space it would have worked.

I stated above that I was getting ready to put out an update, but I wanted to let everyone know that it’s more than just an “update”. I released v2.0 about a half-hour ago, and it’s been re-designed from the ground up. It’s now a menu bar application that runs 24/7 and automatically checks your IP address every 30 minutes. If your IP has changed it updates the info on the OpenDNS site. You can also update manually at any time.

You can download it directly from my site (link above) or from MacUpdate/Versiontracker. Let me know what you think about the new version!

By: John Roberts

John Roberts — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:35:04 +0000

@Ron V – you can rename a network as far as I know. I’ve done it. More details?

By: Ron V

Ron V — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Ah, so the space is why it didn’t work! But it didn’t time out, it hung forever (15 minutes or so). It’s really disappointing when the first time you try new software it fails, and more so when OpenDNS doesn’t allow renaming, so I had to delete the network and recreate without the space, losing all my settings I had accumulated. But then it did work. Thanks, Zach! Great tool!

By: Zach Weigand

Zach Weigand — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:05:32 +0000

I’m getting ready to put out an update to fix a problem that causes OpenDNS Updater to time out if there is a space entered in the username, password, or network fields. (This is the problem Bret experienced above)

As a note, OpenDNS Updater may not work if your user data contains weird characters (i.e. $ % &, etc.)

By: Bret C

Bret C — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:34:29 +0000

I cant get it to work.

I put in the information (correctly) and then nothing happens. The Icon just sits there and does nothing.

By: ljun

ljun — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:33:09 +0000

developer of dnsupdate application said the source is open, but he has no time to write in opendns support.

If anyone is handy with Xcode/Cocoa….

By: Zach Weigand

Zach Weigand — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:35:02 +0000

No problem here Jason. Being that yours is for Windows I don’t think we have anything to worry about.