{"id":297,"date":"2010-05-16T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-07-21T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T01:19:29","slug":"ip-change-notification-by-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"IP change notification by email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had installed ipupdate while trying out dnsexit.com and loved its simplicity, dnsexit.com provides a great service but in the end I chose to stick with my current registrar <a title=\"Lqconsulting.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lqconsulting.com\/client\/check.php\" target=\"_blank\">lqconsulting<\/a> who is a major supporter of Linux users, they also run linuxquestions.org of which am a member. I had tried to configure ddclient to work with my registrar but I did not have enough info about my registrar&#8217;s requirements of the client to work with their site. So in the mean time I have edited ipupdate to send me an email everytime my ip address changes while still doing evrything else it does. I prefer it this way over updating my registrar, since I do a lot of remoting in and it takes a few minutes before a new IP is updated to nameservers &#8220;around 20min&#8221;, but if I already have my new IP in my mail when it changes I don&#8217;t have to wait until nameservers update my site IP for me to be able to remote in. I have provided the edited file below for anyone who wants to use it also the tar,rpm and deb files that install it.<\/p>\n<p>For install instructions go <a title=\"Dnsexit.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnsexit.com\/Direct.sv?cmd=ipClients\" target=\"_blank\">to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muthii.com\/dls\/ipupdate.pl.tar.bz2\">My edited file<\/a><br \/>\nYou can replace the installations ipupdate.pl with mine for v1.6-2 or just copy over my additions to them whichever works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had installed ipupdate while trying out dnsexit.com and loved its simplicity, dnsexit.com provides a great service but in the end I chose to stick with my current registrar lqconsulting who is a major supporter of Linux users, they also run linuxquestions.org of which am a member. I had tried to configure ddclient to work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IP change notification by email&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,83,10],"tags":[110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}