diff --git a/dns/ddclient/pkg-descr b/dns/ddclient/pkg-descr
index 1b392f36a..761df3b6b 100644
--- a/dns/ddclient/pkg-descr
+++ b/dns/ddclient/pkg-descr
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Plugin Changelog
 * Add sitelutions support (contributed by Luca Schoeneberg)
 * Add woima support (contributed by Luca Schoeneberg)
 * Add Yandex support (contributed by Luca Schoeneberg)
+* Fix parsing short IPv6 addresses from external service (contributed by Patrick Grupp)
 
 1.9
 
diff --git a/dns/ddclient/src/opnsense/scripts/ddclient/checkip b/dns/ddclient/src/opnsense/scripts/ddclient/checkip
index 35e224405..b8d7ffe3d 100755
--- a/dns/ddclient/src/opnsense/scripts/ddclient/checkip
+++ b/dns/ddclient/src/opnsense/scripts/ddclient/checkip
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def extract_address(txt):
     """
     for regexp in [r'[^a-fA-F0-9\:]', r'[^F0-9\.]']:
         for line in re.sub(regexp, ' ', txt).split():
-            if line.count('.') == 3 or line.count(':') > 4:
+            if line.count('.') == 3 or line.count(':') >= 2:
                 try:
                     ipaddress.ip_address(line)
                     return line