ddclient: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip' = '' (Dynamic DNS)

Previous posts on this topic appear to be outdated or not useful. Running 17.04 on a Pine64.

When running ddclient with dynu.com service I get an email with the following error (*** where I deleted values for privacy):

WARNING: file /var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 8: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip' = ''
WARNING: skipping update of ***.DYNU.NET from <nothing> to ***.
WARNING: last updated <never> but last attempt on Tue Jun 20 15:26:07 2017 failed.
WARNING: Wait at least 5 minutes between update attempts.

My configuration file looks like this:

# Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf
#
# /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=150
syslog=yes
mail=***
mail-failure=***
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
ssl=yes
use=web, web= web-skip='IP Address'
server=api.dynu.com
protocol=dyndns2
server=dynu.com
login=***
password='***
***.DYNU.NET

I've tried different IP services as well, such as

Any new patches or updates on this issue?

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1 Answer

So, I changed the web domain to:

And removed the second instance of server.

My final config file looks like this:

# Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf
#
# /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=150
syslog=yes
mail=***
mail-failure=***
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
ssl=yes
use=web, web=
server=api.dynu.com
protocol=dyndns2
#server=dynu.com
login=***
password='***'
***.DYNU.NET

And I got the wonderful email:

SUCCESS: updating ***.DYNU.NET: good: IP address set to ***

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