Install no-ip client from source on Ubuntu 9.10

Go to your home directory:

sudo cd ~

Download no-ip client:

wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz

Untar it:

tar xzf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz

Change directory to directory in which it was untared (my version is 2.1.9, so your folder may differ):

cd no-ip-2.1.9

Make:

sudo make

If the command above gives you some errors as you might not have GCC installed, you can install it by running first:

sudo apt-get install gcc

Make install:

sudo make install

It will ask you some question about the configuration of the client:


To start the program:

sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2

If we want to make it run every system start-up, we need to make a script:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/noip2

We enter the following:

#! /bin/sh
sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2

We exit the editor and make it executable:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/noip2

Now we add it to system start-up:

sudo update-rc.d noip2 defaults

Useful command lines for no-ip client:

/usr/local/bin/noip2 -C                 configure a client
/usr/local/bin/noip2                    run a client
/usr/local/bin/noip2 -S                 display info about running clients
/usr/local/bin/noip2 -D pid             toggle the debug state for client pid
/usr/local/bin/noip2 -K pid             terminate client pid

All the commands available for noip client:

USAGE: noip2 [ -C [ -F][ -Y][ -U #min]][ -c file]
[ -d][ -D pid][ -i addr][ -S][ -M][ -h]

Version Linux-2.x.x
Options: -C               create configuration data
-F               force NAT off
-Y               select all hosts/groups
-U minutes       set update interval
-c config_file   use alternate data path
-d               increase debug verbosity
-D processID     toggle debug flag for PID
-i IPaddress     use supplied address
-I interface     use supplied interface
-S               show configuration data
-M               permit multiple instances
-K processID     terminate instance PID
-h               help (this text)

If you want to see if no-ip client is actually working, enter this in terminal:

sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2 -S

It should say 1 noip2 process active like this:

1 noip2 process active.

Process 1257, started as noip2, (version 2.1.9)
Using configuration from /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf
Last IP Address set 123.123.123.123
Account email@gmail.com
configured for:
host  domain.myftp.org
Updating every 30 minutes via /dev/eth0 with NAT enabled.

and the Last IP Address set should be your Ip adress, Account should be your email which you used when you have set up no-ip client, configured for: should be your no-ip.com subdomain you've choosen.
If some data is wrong, you should follow this tutorial to reconfigure your no-ip client