Install latest/edge of namecheap-ddns-client
Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.
Install using the command line
sudo snap install namecheap-ddns-client --edgeDon't have snapd? Get set up for snaps.
Small and uncomplicated snap to use Namecheap dynamic DNS services. You just need to configure three attributes:
$ snap set namecheap-ddns-client password=${PASSWORD}
$ snap set namecheap-ddns-client domain=${FQDN}
$ snap set namecheap-ddns-client host=${HOST}
You can also do this in one step as shown in the example below:
$ snap set namecheap-ddns-client domain=example.com host=@ password=mypassword
If everything is setup correctly, you can see that every five minutes, the IP address is updated. In case of any complications, just checkout the logs:
$ sudo journalctl -fu snap.namecheap-ddns-client.ncddns
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