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I'm using dydns to name my servers. My provider is using CGN, therefore my IPv4 is almost useless. Updating my IPv4 does not make any sense and I want to skip/deactivate this, I just want to update my IPv6 (e.g. after a prefix update). Is there a way to achieve/configure this with ddclient?

Thomas P
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  • If your ISP is using CGN, then you have a residential network, and your residential terms of service forbid running services to the public Internet. You need to get a business account. – Ron Maupin Nov 28 '21 at 01:18

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Assuming a sufficiently new Perl ddclient perhaps

use=if
ipv6=yes
ipv4=no

Makes use of the OS interface command to find IPs, ip on Linux, others on other platforms.

My reading of the source is that it only does one address family, I think. Disabled v4 just in case. Per the template config file, IPv6 requires newer than 3.8.1.

Or, consider using a v6 only network for some hosts. Remove all (non-loopback) v4 addresses from interfaces. Implement transition methods like DNS64/NAT64 where required to connect to IPv4 hosts.

John Mahowald
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  • `usev6=ip` yields `DEBUG: get_ipv6: using ip, ip reports `. I tried `usev6=web, web=checkipv6.dyndns.com, web-skip='IP Address'` and the website shows the correct IPv6, but the debug output says `DEBUG: get_ipv6: using web, checkipv6.dyndns.com reports ` . – Thomas P Nov 30 '21 at 20:48
  • My mistake, ip method is static IP, as in command line option. if is probably what you want, if getting the IP of a Linux box. See edit. – John Mahowald Dec 01 '21 at 00:29
  • With a tiny modification to `usev6=if, if=enx...` the edit fixed it for me. Thank you. – Thomas P Dec 01 '21 at 05:09