noipclient

noipclient is a noip.com dynamic DNS update client.

Installation

Dependencies

noipclient depends on the Python development package. For example, to install it on Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev

Or on CentOS:

$ sudo yum install python-devel

Installing from pypi

You can install noipclient either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from source.

To install using pip,:

$ pip install noipclient

To install using easy_install,:

$ easy_install noipclient

Downloading and installing from source

Alternatively, you can download the latest version of noipclient from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/noipclient/

You can install it by doing the following,:

$ tar xvfz noipclient-0.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd noipclient-0.0.0
$ sudo python setup.py install

Using the development version

You can clone the git repository by doing the following:

$ git clone git://github.com/acordiner/noipclient.git

Using noipclient

To start noipclient, run:

$ noipclient start

The first time you run the client, you will be prompted to enter your noip.com account details:

Config file /home/fbar/.noipclient.cfg not found. Create one now? [Yn]
no-ip.com username: fbar
no-ip.com password:
no-ip.com hostname (e.g. myhost.no-ip.org): foobar.no-ip.org
Starting noipclient ... OK

You can then start, stop, restart and check the status of noipclient:

$ noipclient status
noipclient -- pid: 23842, status: sleeping, uptime: 0m, %cpu: 0.0, %mem: 0.1
$ noipclient restart
Stopping noipclient ... OK
Starting noipclient ... OK
$ noipclient stop
Stopping noipclient ... OK

Bug tracker

If you have any suggestions, bug reports or annoyances please report them at http://github.com/acordiner/noipclient/issues/

License

This software is licensed under the GPL v2 License. See the LICENSE file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.