Have Open DNS Updater log all IP addresses.
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OpenDNS cannot log what IP addresses have been assigned to you by your ISP. They could only log the address that you have registered with them for your network. Although the registrations are (or should be) subset of all addresses assigned to you, that does not mean that they will know about all addresses assigned to you.
Aside from that, what would this logging service do to further their business model and the DNS and security services that they are in the business or providing. Is there some way that this would improve or enhance the service that they are in the business of providing. There are many things that they *could* do, but just like any business they do need to justify since it would require the expenditure of their resources to do so. Generally speaking, just because you want to keep tabs on your ISP is probably not a good reason unless they can somehow tie it back to their core business.
As it is, with the free account you can't even get timestamps of when a DNS lookup is done. Why would they add timestamps to IP address changes.
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Are you saying you are receiving multiple public IP address from your ISP, without any sort of NAT router or firewall between them and the internet? If so then you would need to create a separate OpenDNS network for every single device that you want protected by OpenDNS, and each device would need the IP Updater or similar software to keep your address registration current for each device/network. Besides the massive security risks of not sitting behind any sort of security devices such as a firewall, each device/network would then need to be managed separately, rather than managing them as part of an entire network, as is the norm with OpenDNS.
Regardless of all that I have no idea what this response has to do with your original post or anything I said in my reply. If almost as if you are talking about another subject entirely.
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"I'd like to have a log where I can view what IP addresses I have been assigned by my ISP along with when they were last updates"
No problem. Send your DDNS updates through DNS-O-Matic (https://www.dnsomatic.com/) instead of directly to OpenDNS. This comes with logging and also optional e-mail notifications. Case closed.
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Matt, Your point was that you could only log the addresses that was registered. My point was that that's exactly what is needed. The only reason to log multiple addresses is if you weren't using a nat router. I couldn't care less about the business decision as that's OpenDNSs decision. I was just requisition the feature.
rotblitz, Sounds like a possible plan but I'm having a problem finding an updater for the Mac. The only one I've found was written back in 2009. Sure would be nice if the OpenDNS updater could update DNS-O-Matic as well.
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Yes, my point was the OpenDNS can only log the addresses that are registered, but the way I tried to say it was very clumsy and missed something. Just because an address change is registered does not that it is receiving all of the address changes your ISP has assigned to you. Over the years I've had different issues where OpenDNS does not receive an update and I didn't realize an update had occurred. Sometimes these "failures" were essentially self induced where I was changing things on my network and something was "broken" or disabled during the process, or at least once or twice where I needed to directly connect a device to the internet without my typical perimeter devices, and the ISP assigned a new ISP address because it appeared to be a new device to them. The Updater wasn't running there, so OpenDNS didn't know about that short-lived address assignment. I think once I even had someone uninstall an Updater since they didn't know what it is, so decided they didn't need it. The point, while OpenDNS is very good at logging data it receives, there are cases where it doesn't receive some data, such as address updates, and therefore can't log anything.
You should very much care about the business decision. You are asking for a feature which amounts to tracking what your ISP is doing, and it's not immediately obvious why OpenDNS should be doing that or how it fits with their existing offerings or business model. In essence your reason for them doing this is "I want it, so you should do it." If a client approached me and wanted me to do something like that, with a similar lack of explanation for why I should do something, my response would "Thanks, interesting, but no, we won't be doing that.
Rotblitz. DNS-O-Matic is my go to for all of my updates, in part because I use it to update more than just OpenDNS (I also use it to update a DDNS service and my IPv6 tunneling service). I rely upon the email notifications to confirm that everything is working, but I didn't realize it had that kind of logging capability. Regardless, I run it on my router instead of any device in my network because I find it to be more reliable, convenient, and not as prone to any of the other kinds of interruptions I referred to earlier in this post.
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"I'm having a problem finding an updater for the Mac. The only one I've found was written back in 2009."
Is this the one? http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26438/dns-o-matic-updater
What speaks against using this? Doesn't it run on your current Mac version?Another alternative, beside using an update client built-in on one of your devices, would be to use ddclient (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddclient/) which requires Perl.
Configuration instructions for DNS-O-Matic: http://dnsomatic.com/wiki/ddclient
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