DDCLIENT(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to DDCLIENT(8) — the manual page for ddclient, aka the little guy who goes and updates your IP addresses at dynamic DNS services. 💖 that's the whole job. that's the vibe. slay.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how you actually call her:

ddclient {-help}

or, the full main-character entrance:

ddclient [-daemon interval] [-proxy host] [-server host]
         [-protocol type] [-file configfile] [-cache cachefile]
         [-pid pidfile] [-use mechanism] {-if interface | -ip ipaddress
         | -web {provider | url} | -fw firewall | -cmd command}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. it's a perl based client whose entire personality is updating your dynamic IP address over at DynDNS.com — or at other dynamic DNS services, because she's not exclusive, she also fw Hammernode, Zoneedit and EasyDNS. 🫶

the way this works: you get a fixed hostname like myhost.dyndns.org that stays put, and then you and everybody else can use that one hostname to reach your machine, no matter how much your IP keeps acting up. no cap. 🔥

she's flexible too, bestie — she supports both the dynamic and (near) static services, plus MX setting, plus alternative host. versatile icon. 👑

and here's the part that ate: she caches the address, and she only attempts the update if the address actually changes. so she's not out here spamming the update endpoint for no reason. she's chill. she checks first. 💅

ngl though, for actual usage information you should run ddclient -help — until this manpage is finished. 😭 yeah. she said that. we're all waiting. 🙈

that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this one's from [FIXME: source], dated 08/10/2012, and it lives under the manual name DDCLIENT(8). periodt. 💖✨🦋