Greetings!

As promised, we are kicking off the open beta on a Dynamic IP Updater for Mac.

You may download the tool from http://www.opendns.com/download/mac/dynamicip

Since this is a beta test version, please provide us with feedback (whether it be positive or negative.)

I will update this post with feedback that has been accepted and put in the task queue.

Thanks,
Dima
Project Manager

Seems to have fair few omissions from 2.7:
• No longer displays IP greyed-out in the menu bar contextual menu – one-click access to IP was nice.
• Growl support removed?
• Won't update IP if the computer that's running the app isn't with OpenDNS. Only some of my computers use OpenDNS as a parental filter.

Like mattrobs, my IP always showed greyed-out in the menu bar of the old updater. The new updater required selecting "show status" in the drop down menu, to see any information. No objections to using the drop down menu - I like what displays. I have two networks running through OpenDNS, and I can easily switch back and forth now. Especially like the fact that it tells you "Using OpenDNS?" and "Last updated"

I don't use Growl support, so I can't comment on that part.

To have some computers using OpenDNS and some not - I put the OpenDNS server numbers in my router, then put my ISP's DNS numbers in the network settings of the two computers I do not want filtered. That makes it painless to have the updater running on a computer that is not being filtered.

Nancy

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Yup. Throwing a 404.

Is there a way to run the apple updater on startup of an apple laptop?
Also,
Is there a way to have the application not identify that it running?
Thanks

sorry I was talking about the other version.

Hi, the app works well for me, except it does not accept long passwords (mine was 12 characters and didn't work, now it's 8 and does).

I would really appreciate it if there were an option to not show the icon in the menu bar. I have so many icons already, it gets too crowded up there.

Thanks!

Hello, I'm the developer of the OLD updater (2.7). I got the email with the notification about the new PC version of OpenDNS Updater and I decided to come see what people were saying about it. Only then did I notice that there was a new Mac version available as well. (kinda odd nobody even bothered to tell me) Anywho, I have feedback to share.

1. I'm excited to see the project being moved in-house! When I first created the updater OpenDNS was nowhere near as large as it is now and it really deserves more development time than I can give it. Cheers to the new dev! (dkumets?) Please contact me any time so I can help get the project transitioned smoothly. Now that you have an official client, I don't need to worry about keeping mine around.

2. Not having a Menubar item. I've received this request several times and the reason it's not really feasible (with the app as is) is because once the menubar icon is gone, there is no way to interact with the app to change settings, etc. The only ways I know how to remedy this would be to make OpenDNS Updater a pref pane, or to create some global hotkey that brings the prefs to the front (not ideal). Personally, I think making it a pref pane is a great idea. It would allow those people who want a menubar icon to have one, and the rest could turn it off. Unfortunately, I didn't have the dev skills to turn it into one, or I would have.

3. Growl Support. Might as well put it in …it was my number one support request until I did.

4. Built in DNS-O-Matic support. Same company, same username/password, it only makes sense to have it all in one updater. I was going to roll the two together whenever I had time, but it looks like that time isn't coming.

5. OpenDNS rocks! Love the service guys, keep up the good work!


If anyone needs to contact me, you can find me on twitter @zweigand, or via email @ zweigand -[at]- gmail -[dot]- com

-zach

zweigand,
My apologies for not reaching out to you. I am the project and implementation manager while kjk is the developer. I will be emailing you shortly.

I was running 2.7 and just tried out 3.0b6. The machine I run the updater on does NOT use OpenDNS for it's DNS servers. 3.0b6 shows "IP: Unavailable" in the menu and the "IP Address" field blank in the Status window.

One other item I noticed -- after running 3.0b6 I had a "Login Items" entry for BOTH OpenDNS Update 2.7 and OpenDNS Updater 3.0b6 in my Account options. Perhaps the 3.0 version should clean up the other Login Item automatically?

I want to apologize for the inconvenience.
There is a bug with the auto-update mechanism that causes this. We have since resolved the issue for future versions.

In the meantime, please quit the updater, download the latest version from http://www.opendns.com/download/mac/dynamicip and install it.

Thank you for your help and participation in the beta.

@dryvlyne
To possibly isolate what the problem with the updates is, you can emulate such an update manually, while visiting the following URL with a browser:
"https://UserID:Password@updates.opendns.com/nic/update?hostname=NetworkLabel"
(Without quotes. Replace your user ID, password and network label accordingly.)
The response should be "good xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (your IP address).

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/88

Can't sign in either, using 2.7 with 10.6.1.

This is not a bug. This field/information is normally used to denote the domain name (hostname) of the DDNS host in the DynDNS specs. Have you ever heard about a domain name with whitespaces?
However, you are right in some way. Both, the OpenDNS website and the Updater should not accept entering a network label containing whitespaces.

can't login using the 3.0 beta either (under Snow Leopard)

rotblitz--in your post above what's the "network label"?

actually i just put it in with just my username and password (and left NetworkLabel as such) and I got the good xxx.xx.etc. message)

but i can't actually login, with the exact same login info. what gives?

p.s. what's also annoying is i can't paste my password into the opendns form field, i have to type it manually (i know it's a beta).

White spaces are allowed in my version of the app (2.7) …they are escaped to %20 and should have no problem working (unless something changed recently)

As far as network labels go, I'm not sure how it works in the new beta, but the url update mechanism does not require you to enter a network name unless you have created more than one.

for some reason the open dns updater is not updating, what should we do?

OpenDNS Updater 2.7 (Mac) correctly gives my IP address but 3.0b7 leaves my IP address as blank. Further, the beta tells me I'm not even using OpenDNS — it displaces "No" in red. But that can't be right because my IP address is the same as in the OpenDNS dashboard, which shows my filtering level. This is all pretty geeky to me so probably I'm missing something, but I am mystified.

http://welcome.opendns.com

If you visit that link, what does it say?

Beautiful! Enjoy.

Hi, what is the point of OpenDNS updater when the user can both see it and defeat it by turning it off? I use OpenDNS primarily as a content filtering service for my kids at home. They are smart kids, so I use a number of levels of blocking software to block inappropriate content. But with OpenDNS updater (if the other measures weren't in place), all they would need to do would be to quit OpenDNS updater from the task bar (no password required) and reboot the router to get a new IP. It makes the whole thing seem rather pointless.

Preferably the updater should run as an invisible service and it should require the administrators password to both run and quit it.

Thanks.