So yes, this is stupid simple and I’ve put it off far to long–world renown for my sloth–but here’s the quick lowdown for ddclient.

1. Grab and install either from Synaptic or apt-get.
2. Walk through the little install wizard then do it all over again: dpkg-reconfigure ddclient. You want to make sure it runs as a service and monitors changes in ppp–something that the install wizard doesn’t cover.
3. Then tweak /etc/ddclient.conf:
   

   # Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf
   #
   # /etc/ddclient.conf
   pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
   protocol=easydns
   use=web
   server=members.easydns.com
   login=yournamehere
   password=’password’
   *.your.domain

4. Restart the service: sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient reload

One of the things I noticed when fiddling with ddclient was that it doesn’t work so well with wireless cards.  Sounds stupid, but I was testing in on my laptop and never got very far because it wouldn’t update the IP address so my sloth settled in and I never took the initiative to test it on a box with a wired connection.

Tags: ddclient, DNS, Linux, Networking, Ubuntu

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