Badauth for no reason.
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What is the ddclient that you are using when you receive this error.
Is it DNS-O-Matic or something else.
In addition, there are a few characters that cannot be used in passwords used in the Dynamic IP Updater Client. These characters include:***^, &, , ~, `,*** and ***%***. Please change your OpenDNS account password so you don't include any of non-alphanumeric characters: https://dashboard.opendns.com/myaccount/password
In addition, please also check to make sure that the system time and time zone are correct on your computer.
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Same here. Changed nothing on my end, and now overnight get bad authentication on both Synology NAS and Asus router all of a sudden.
My original password had one special character (a dot), tried to change it to one just alfanumeric, but OpenDNS needs a special character in password, so put in a dash. Stil getting the error.
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I'm having the same behavior, seems something with their authentication system. I saw the behavior with my (legacy) Synology DDNS alerting starting yesterday. I have tried updating via a couple of dnsomatic containers in Docker and using the DirectUpdate application. Each one returns "badauth" when it is the same credentials I have used for a couple of years and successfully logged into this forum with.
Hate to say it, but it's you (opendns/dnsomatic), not me. At least this time.
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In general, if DNS-O-Matic is handing back a `badauth` error, this means that the username and/or password that are being passed to its API are incorrect.
There are a few characters that cannot be used in passwords used in the Dynamic IP Updater Client. These characters include:***^, &, , ~, `,*** and ***%***. Please change your OpenDNS account password so you don't include any of non-alphanumeric characters: https://dashboard.opendns.com/myaccount/password
In addition, please also check to make sure that the system time and time zone are correct on your computer.
Please try using this link to reset your password https://www.dnsomatic.com/account/
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If this does not help please try the following URL:
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Hi Reg,
this is already done:
ticket number is [892687]
https://support.opendns.com/hc/requests/892687
Regards
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Same issue here.
Changed nothing and getting badauth from https://updates.opendns.com/nic/update? on my Synology NAS since 4-5 days ago.
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Reg Ham I have this issue too, it started yesterday.
Prior to this my Synology router was updating my DNS-o-Matic account without issue. I've a custom DDNS update in DSM 7's Control Panel (Synology NAS) that was a fallback for if the router was replaced, this custom DDNS was working but now isn't too.
Also, on Mac, dDNS Broker cannot access DNS-o-Matic not OpenDNS accounts to update them. Plus using Mac's Terminal and 'curl' with a correctly crafted URL (with username/password, using HTML character code %40 for @) doesn't work, nor does using Safari with the correctly crafted URL (without username/password): where the authentication just repeats itself.
Using 'curl' returns 'badauth' yet I can log into DNS-o-Matic and OpenDNS web sites, as evidenced by being able to post here.
I've tried updating my account password and that had no effect.
I've raised a support ticket (#893086) and referenced this community thread.
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Thanks all for posting that it has started to work again. Only having issues with dDNS Broker on Mac (looks from the Mc App Store) that the developer has moved onto a new version with subscription payment. Oh well, I've a fallback script for my DDNS services, plus the primary service in Synology SRM now works.
If anyone is looking for a custom provider query URL to be added in Synology DSM 7's Control Panel, I find that this works:
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For any one having this problem, I found out that the only way to not get badauth, is to use `@` sign as a special characters in your password.
That's the only special character that I found passes with no badauth message. I tired having a password without special characters but that's not allowed inside opendns dashboard. so as I said `@` sign should do the trick.
Thanks.
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