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Configure ddclient with Namecheap

Namecheap Configuration

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

ddclient Configuration

Install (fill in dummy values for the TUI)

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

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

Test

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

Restart
```
sudo service ddclient restart
```

Metacinnabar commented Sep 29, 2021

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.

noxware commented Jul 14, 2022

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?

MihaiChirculete commented Mar 15, 2023

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.

riordant commented Apr 8, 2023 •

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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.