Setup the DDClient Service Daemon to run at startup sudo systemctl start ddclient. If you want to upgrade your main domain, you must enter here a (without the quotation marks).
must be replaced by the domain name, which you want to update.Now you have to replace the file’s contents and adapt with the following content: # Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf Open the config file using any text editor. Customizing the ddclient configurationĪfter we have installed ddclient, we must now adjust its configuration file. Here you can safely enter what you want, because we have to adjust the configuration file manually either way, because the wizard does not support the interface. Note: During installation an installation wizard opens and wants to know some things from you. Using localhost we are telling the dig tool to utilize the localhost’s DNS server for the DNS lookup. For this purpose, the following two commands are necessary. With the dnsutils package installed to the Raspberry Pi, we can go ahead and query our Pi DNS server by running the command below. In the first step we have to install ddclient, a DynDNS software, on the Pi. Log into your Raspberry Pi (by ssh for example) or open a terminal window if you are working directly on Pi. How to use Namecheap DynDNS service with ddclient on the Raspberry Pi