DNSExit - Dynamic IP Updater on the Pi

[malakai]

so I was trying to find a Dynamic IP updater to run on the Pi this initially works won't know until I get a new IP but when I ran setup it changed my IP address

The choices aren't great for the free domains they give you but it's all free and appears to be working on my PI

.publicvm.com
.linkpc.net

To install the deb package has issues

Go here to sign up and get a free domain http://www.dnsexit.com/

SSH or login to Pi

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wget http://downloads.dnsexit.com/ipUpdate-1.6-2.tar.gz
tar xzvf ipUpdate-1.6-2.tar.gz 
sudo ./setup.pl

It asks for username, password gives options for domain you can have more than one if you do enter 0 1 you don't have to type out the domain (wasn't sure when I went though it)

Asks if you want to run as daemon choose yes to run on reboot (rebooted router and tested it updated my IP on their servers)

This will update your IP on their servers

run

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./ipUpdate.pl

To manually update.

Haven't used this client in years so feel free to check reviews.

Also I was wondering what other clients people have gotten to work directly on the PI

[munklefish]

By far the simplest, quickest and clearest way ive found to do this is explained in this post and it literally takes seconds.

http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=18

[filful]

When I try to install setup.pl, I receive this error message:
Can't locate Http_get.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./dnsexit/setup.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./dnsexit/setup.pl line 12.

[iprektcom]

By far the simplest, quickest and clearest way ive found to do this is explained in this post and it literally takes seconds.

I would also suggest this free DDNS that has a TTL as low as 1 second refresh rate! You can't go any faster than that.
It comes with a very basic and simple API all explained in the "API" page here http://www.iprekt.com/?p=api.

Speed demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHzeSJdaXo

[bengt_a]

When I try to install setup.pl, I receive this error message:
Can't locate Http_get.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./dnsexit/setup.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./dnsexit/setup.pl line 12.

From the command prompt, type

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export PERL5LIB=/home/pi/dnsexit/

Then try the setup again.

I get another error saying that it can't fetach [sic] url info from dnsexit.com. Please try again later...

[drunkly]

I know this is an old thread but and this is not related to raspberry per se but I spent several days figuring out what is failing and how to solve and I want to share the results in case someone else or me on the future need this information.

Target version: 1.71

Problem: ipUpdate.pl scritp doesn't starts on reboot or close randomly.

Possible cause: setup.pl script is "half cooked", after read the setup.pl, it doesn't install any of the services on the init folder. The admin has to install them manually.

How I have fixed it from the beginning:

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wget http://downloads.dnsexit.com/ipUpdate-1.71.tar.gz
tar xzvf ipUpdate-1.71.tar.gz
cd ipUpdate/dnsexit/
sudo su
./setup.pl

• Insert settings for you domains/account

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cp init/ipUpdate-DNSEXIT.service /etc/systemd/system/ipUpdate.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/ipUpdate.service

• Edit this file to wait until network is online. Add a restart on failure function:

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[Unit]
Description=DNSEXIT-Dynamic-IP-Updater
Wants=network-online.target
After=syslog.target network.target network-online.target

[Service]
PIDFile=/var/run/ipUpdate.pid
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ipUpdate.pl daemon
Restart=on-failure
StartLimitBurst=2
StartLimitInterval=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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systemctl enable ipUpdate
sudo update-rc.d ipUpdate enable
systemctl daemon-reload
cp ipUpdate.service /etc/init.d/
update-rc.d ipUpdate deafults

Conclusions: The setup.pl script is only ready to setup ipUpdate conf and run it manually. It is not ready to install it as service, start at boot, or restart on failure. It is responsability of the sysadmin to select the better init script for his distribution and adapt it how he likes.

[malcolmxtc]

Hey drunkly,

I'm getting the following error:

update-rc.d: error: cannot find a LSB script for ipUpdate

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks a lot.