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A few weeks ago I started to notice that when my router connected to my DSL PPPoE account my DDNS with zonedit wasn't updating at all, I also tried from many of my linux boxes and the problem was still there.

I emailed Zonedit support about it and they told me to change the server parameter from "dynamic.zonedit.com" to "legacydns.zonedit.com" which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

I'd like to know if tomato has addressed this issue in some git release the error I see on the UI is:

Thu Dec 09 2010 16:53:26 GMT-0500 (Hora est. del Pac�fico de SA):
Unknown response (-1).
(1/3: Automatically retrying in 16 minutes)

and it keeps trying and trying with no luck.

Thanks for your help.

To fix this, I simply added an entry in my router's hosts file that points dynamic.zoneedit.com to the IP address of legacy.zoneedit.com. Certainly not foolproof, but it works.

When and if ZoneEdit officially updates their instructions here to reflect the URL change, I'll update it in Tomato. But it might be a temporary or regional problem.

For now you can use the workaround posted by Lackluster. Alternatively you may setup a DNS-o-matic account (which is supported by Tomato), and add your ZoneEdit service there.

I'm not sure what the deal is here. There's no entry for "legacydns.zoneedit.com", and using legacy.zoneedit.com just gives a HTTP code 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect to dynamic.zoneedit.com.

Meanwhile: as far as I can tell, the only difference between the expectations and responses ZoneEdit actually gives vs what is documented there and what Tomato expects is:

For login errors, zoneedit returns

<ERROR CODE="708" TEXT="Login/authorization error" ZONE="" HOST=""  STAGE="3"/>

instead of giving an HTTP 401 error.

You can also configure a custom DDNS entry using the URL https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@legacy.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=HOSTNAME (credentials in the URL because Custom doesn't provide separate fields for those).

Note that DNS-O-Matic's ZoneEdit configuration suffers from the same problem. If your ZoneEdit account hasn't been migrated to the new system yet, DNS-O-Matic will report the same 708 error that Westacular posted.

I was successfully able to update my dynamic DNS on ZoneEdit's new interface with the following URL:

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?zones=YOURHOST&dnsto=@IP

e.g.:

https://someuser:s3cr3t-stuff@dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?zones=mail.mydomain.com&dnsto=@IP

If you had multiple hosts to update, this should work (although I haven't tried it):

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?zones=YOURHOST,YOURHOST2,YOURHOST3&dnsto=@IP

etc…

I based this off InvisiBill's suggested URL above, plus ZoneEdit's (incomplete!) updated instructions here:
http://www.zoneedit.com/faq.html

ZoneEdit's page forgets to mention that you need to include your username and password in your supplied update URL. If you don't include it the update will not work.