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I have a small script ran by cron (well, systemd timers) every 15 minutes which checks the current IP via https://api.ipify.org/ https://api.ipify.org/ and upda

I have a small script ran by cron (well, systemd timers) every 15 minutes which checks the current IP via https://api.ipify.org/ https://api.ipify.org/ and updates dns entries on digital ocean (its dns service is free) if it differs from what's there.

KronisLV 4y ago
If someone has to deal with dynamic IP addresses and wants to use dynamic DNS as well, there's also the pretty nice ddclient package: https://ddclient.net/ https://ddclient.net/ I've been using it with NameCheap pretty successfully for a while now, here's an example of some of the integrations it supports: https://ddclient.net/protocols.html https://ddclient.net/protocols.html (sadly no DigitalOcean integration as of yet, but this might be of use to others)