Comment 19 for bug 116066

I can confirm I experience this bug too. Running a fully updated Feisty:

Logs show repeated instances of error messages:

Aug 4 10:04:30 plasken ddclient[8092]: WARNING: cannot connect to members.dyndns.com:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection timed out
Aug 4 10:04:30 plasken ddclient[8092]: FAILED: updating {domainname}.homeip.net: Could not connect to members.dyndns.com.
Aug 4 10:09:30 plasken ddclient[8092]: WARNING: forcing update of {domainname}.homeip.net from 89.168.xx.xx to 89.168.yy.yy; 25 days since last update on Mon Jun 25 22:41:05 2007.
Aug 4 10:12:39 plasken ddclient[8092]: WARNING: cannot connect to members.dyndns.com:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection timed out
Aug 4 10:12:39 plasken ddclient[8092]: FAILED: updating {domainname}.homeip.net: Could not connect to members.dyndns.com.

Trying to run sudo ddclient in a terminal yields the following:

$ sudo ddclient
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/ddclient line 1681.
WARNING: forcing update of {domainname}.homeip.net from 89.168.xx.zz to 89.168.xx.yy; 25 days since last update on Mon Jun 25 22:41:05 2007.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/ddclient line 1681.

WARNING: cannot connect to {domainname}.dyndns.com:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection timed out
FAILED: updating {domainname}.homeip.net: Could not connect to members.dyndns.com.

Does anyone have an explanation / fix for the "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/ddclient line 1681." ? Thanks!