Hi Jean-Francois,

> Is this wise to use ddclient according to one's experience,

Well, ddclient is rather low quality Perl code, but it does its job.

Actually, regarding a DynDNS client, the quality of the code is less
important than the care it takes to avoid unnecessary updates, such
that you don't get banned by your DynDNS provider for performing
bogus updates and contributing to useless server load on their side.
In that respect, ddclient is so good that it is the number one
recommended client by dyndns.org.

> or which dyn dns client is recommended within openbsd if else ?

I don't think the choice of your DynDNS client needs to depend that
much on the operating system you use.  On OpenBSD, ddclient runs well,
and the port is up to date and maintained (by Joerg Zinke).
So i would say, just go ahead and use it.

> I can't find details about ddclient such as a man page ?

No, last time i checked, there wasn't any manual page or other
stand-alone documentation.

> Do we have to guess with the only ddclient.conf ?

Yes, the sample configuration file is meant to be self-documenting,
and indeed, nearly everything you need to know is contained in there.
In case you do want to know more, read the ddclient Perl script itself,
it is very short.

Yours,
  Ingo

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