Namecheap ddns updater. A self-contained version of http://search.cpan.org/~dwatson/App-DDNS-Namecheap/

namecheap_ddns.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl

package App::DDNS::Namecheap;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter;
use LWP::Simple qw($ua get);
$ua->agent("");
use Mozilla::CA;

sub new {

  my ( $class, %self ) = @_;
  my $self = { %self };
  bless $self, $class;

}

sub update {
  my $self = shift;

  foreach ( "domain", "password", "hosts" ) { die "App::DDNS::Namecheap: $_ undefined" unless $self->{ $_ } }

  foreach ( @{ $self->{hosts} } ) {
    my $url = "https://dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com/update?domain=$self->{domain}&password=$self->{password}&host=$_";
    if ( my $return = get($url) ) {
      unless ( $return =~ /<errcount>0<\/errcount>/is ) {
	$return = ( $return =~ /<responsestring>(.*)<\/responsestring>/is ? $1 : "unknown error" );
        print "failure submitting host \"$_\.$self->{domain}\": $return\n";
      }
    }
  }
}

package main;

my $timeout = 5;  # 5 minute timeout
$timeout *= 60;

my $domain =  App::DDNS::Namecheap->new(
                domain   => 'mysite.org',
		password => 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz012345',
		hosts    => [ "@", "www", "*" ],
);

# my $domain2 =  App::DDNS::Namecheap->new(
#                domain   => 'mysite2.org',
#		password => 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz012345',
#		hosts    => [ "@", "www", "*" ],
#);

while (1) {
  $domain->update();
#  $domain2->update();
  sleep ($timeout);
}

=head1 NAME

namecheap_ddns.pl - command line stub

=head1 SYNOPSIS

   perl namecheap_ddns.pl

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Script for Namecheap dynamic dns updates.

=head1 AUTHOR

David Watson <[email protected]>

=head1 SEE ALSO

App::DDNS::Namecheap on the CPAN

=head1 COPYRIGHT

This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the 
same terms as Perl itself.

=cut

us.dustbin.ddns.plist

install as daemon on osx using launchctl: launchctl load -w /library/launchdaemons/us.dustbin.ddns.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>us.dustbin.ddns</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/usr/local/bin/namecheap_ddns</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
</dict>
</plist>