ddclient not updating IP

[Pondlife]

Firewall blocking port 80?

http://checkip.dyndns.com/ works fine (and nope port 80 isn't blocked)

[NickFitz]

Firewall blocking port 80?

One would hope not - that's the default HTTP port, and a firewall which blocks almost the entire web is a bit extreme...

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Ah, found in Event Log

WARNING:  cannot connect to checkip.dyndns.com:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname 'checkip.dyndns.com'

it pings ok though

Firewall blocking port 80?

[Pondlife]

Ah, found in Event Log

WARNING:  cannot connect to checkip.dyndns.com:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname 'checkip.dyndns.com'

it pings ok though

[Pondlife]

Any advice appreciated folks,

ddclient was installed via package manager and I can see the service is running. Problem is it's not updating dyndns with my IP address.

conf file was edited and is as follows

# Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf
#
# /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=600                  # check every 600 seconds
syslog=yes                  # log update msgs to syslog
mail=root                   # mail all msgs to root
mail-failure=root           # mail failed update msgs to root

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com/, web-skip='IP Address'
server=members.dyndns.org
login=myuser
password='mypsswd'
myadd.dyndns.org

no messages sent to root mbox either.

Any ideas what's missing?

TIA
PL