Configure ddclient withNamecheap

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Configure ddclient with Namecheap

Namecheap Configuration

1. Click the Manage button next to the domain in the Domain List view
2. In the Domain tab, scroll down and remove any entries in the Redirect Domain list
3. In the Advanced DNS tab...
4. Turn on Dynamic DNS and make a note of the password
5. Add an A Record for @ pointing to 127.0.0.1

ddclient Configuration

1. Install (fill in dummy values for the TUI)

   sudo apt-get install ddclient libio-socket-ssl-perl
   

2. Edit /etc/ddclient.conf to look like the following

   ssl=yes
   use=web, web=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/getip
   protocol=namecheap
   server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com
   login=YOURDOMAIN.COM
   password='***'
   YOURHOST
   

3. Test

   sudo ddclient -query
   sudo ddclient -debug -verbose -noquiet
   

4. Restart

   sudo service ddclient restart
   

Thank you very much!

Would add that, if you're trying to setup a subdomain, you should use only the subdomain on the bottom part. Example for: hello.nicedomain.org:

ssl=yes
use=web, web=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/getip
protocol=namecheap
server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com
login=nicedomain.org
password='***'
hello

Thanks again for such a great tutorial! :)

Would host just be @?

I'm not sure if that would work. You should try it and let me know!

It worked! Thanks for this! One thing to note is that package downloading this now has a setup page, which you can skip past and then directly modify the config.

By just following the automatic setup that appears while installing the package, the resultant configurations works.

The difference is that it doesn't include the ssl, web and server parts. Are them actually necessary for namecheap?

Thanks for this config!

For me it didn't work out of the box, it kept giving the below error:
CONNECT: dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com WARNING: cannot connect to dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com:443 socket: Temporary failure in name resolution IO::Socket::IP configuration failed FAILED: updating @: Could not connect to dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com.

However, turns out that uncommenting the ssl=yes part from the config fixes the issue for me at least.

something important I've noticed for point 5: it's ok to assign to localhost if the IP has not already been set for the DNS, but if you're IP is already pointing to it, you should put in the current server IP there (you might be changing hosts, for example).
Otherwise it assigns localhost to the DNS initially - but it will correctly update to the new IP on the next change.