Using DDclient on a Raspberry Pi (Debian)

DDclient is used to update your IP-address when you use a DDNS-provider.

Step 1. Setting up the Raspberry

If you havent yet set up your Raspberry Pi  my step 1-3 in my earlier article can help you:

LAMP with Raspberry Pi

Step 2. Installing DDclient (if using for example dyndns, noip)

 sudo apt-get install ddclient

You will be guided through a installation. Use your dynamic DNS-information from your provider.

Step 2. Installing DDclient (if using other providers added after DDclient 3.8.0)

Browse wget http://plugwash.raspbian.org/jessietest/private/pool/main/d/ddclient/ to check for lastest ddclient.

sudo wget http://plugwash.raspbian.org/jessietest/private/pool/main/d/ddclient/ddclient_3.8.2-4_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ddclient_3.8.2-4_all.deb

You will be guided through a installation. Use your dynamic DNS-information from your provider. Leave blank when network interface is asked or else your local address instead of your global adress will be used. In my case dtdns wasn´t a choice so I had to edit the ddclient.conf file with the below (use your favorite editor, in my case nano):

nano /etc/ddclient.conf

Change the protocol line to:

protocol=dtdns

Add the following after the comments in top of file:

daemon=300
syslog=yes
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address'

Restart ddclient:

service ddclient restart

You can check that ddclient is working by:

ddclient -daemon=0 -noquiet -debug

All done!

 

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