Yes! In fact, we recommend running on Python3, because a lot of dynamic dns services provide https interfaces, which are best supported in newer python versions from a security and performance point of view.
Here's a list of Python platforms that are officially supported:
- Python 2.6
- Python 2.7
- Python 3.3
- Python 3.4
- Python 3.5
- Python 3.6
- PyPy
Support for Python 2.6 may be dropped at any time.
To find out wether a certain dynamic dns service is supported by Dyndnsc, you can either try to identify the protocol involved and see if it is supported by Dyndnsc by looking the output of 'dyndnsc --help'. Or maybe the service in question is already listed in the presets ('dyndnsc --list-presets').
If you use the "webcheck6" detector and your system has IPv6 privacy extensions, it'll result in the temporary IPv6 address that you use to connect to the outside world.
You likely rather want your less private, but static global IPv6 address in DNS and you can determine it using the "socket" detector.
Connection errors and timeout errors on the socket level and http level are mostly handled as transient and simply ignored, i.e. updating and/or detecting an IP will fail with a log message but the client should remain active and retry later.
Some errors are not handled gracefully, for example if there is an SSL handshake issue when using a https connection, dyndnsc will typically fail.
Thus, depending on your needs, it might be required to put the dyndnsc client inside a retry loop to run it in a completely unattended way. Don't be fooled by the --daemon option, it is available, but the design of the dyndnsc program does not provide longevity guarantees. Feel free to contribute some by sending pull requests!