{"id":2300,"date":"2018-08-09T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2018-08-09T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:15:15","slug":"how-to-install-the-dynamic-update-client-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/2018\/08\/09\/how-to-install-the-dynamic-update-client-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install the Dynamic Update Client on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide will walk you through the installation and setup of the Dynamic Update Client (DUC) on a computer running Linux. If you are using Ubuntu or Debian Linux please check our support site for guides on their specific setup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Installing the Client<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The below commands should be executed from a terminal window (command prompt) after logging in as the \u201croot\u201d user. \u00a0You can become the root user from the command line by entering \u201csudo su -\u201d followed by the root password on your machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> <em>If you do not have\u00a0privileges\u00a0on the machine you are on, you may add the \u201csudo\u201d command in front of steps (5 and 6).<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>cd \/usr\/local\/src<\/li>\n<li>wget http:\/\/www.no-ip.com\/client\/linux\/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz<\/li>\n<li>tar xzf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz<\/li>\n<li>cd no-ip-2.1.9<\/li>\n<li>make<\/li>\n<li>make install<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you get \u201cmake not found\u201d or \u201cmissing gcc\u201d then you do not have the gcc compiler tools on your machine. You will need to install these in order to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Configure the Client<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As root again (or with sudo) issue the below command:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\/usr\/local\/bin\/noip2 -C \u00a0 <em>(dash capital C, this will create the default config file)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will then be prompted for your username and password for No-IP, as well as which hostnames you wish\u00a0to update. \u00a0Be careful, one of the questions is \u201cDo you wish to update ALL\u00a0hosts\u201d. \u00a0If answered incorrectly this could affect hostnames in your account that are pointing at other locations.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the client is installed and configured, you just need to launch it. \u00a0Simply issue this final command to launch the client in the background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\/usr\/local\/bin\/noip2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide will walk you through the installation and setup of the Dynamic Update Client (DUC) on a computer running Linux. If you are using Ubuntu or Debian Linux please check our support site for guides on their specific setup. Installing the Client The below commands should be executed from a terminal window (command prompt) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/2018\/08\/09\/how-to-install-the-dynamic-update-client-on-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Install the Dynamic Update Client on Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"How to Install the Dynamic Update Client on Linux - HP Server","description":"This guide will walk you through the installation and setup of the Dynamic Update Client (DUC) on a computer running Linux. If you are using Ubuntu or Debian Li"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}