Command-line tool for updating a No-IP hostname
I created this script because I was bothered by the fact that No-IP sends email about your domain name expiring after more than 30 days without a change. To remedy this, I decided to write this script in Python and run it into a scheduled job every 15 days using crontab so this problem is solved automatically.
The script replaces the current hostname IP with a fake one, and then, gets the current public IP from an external API and again, replace the fake IP with the new public IP in the No-IP hostname so the expiring countdown will reset.
You need to satisfy the following dependencies in order to compile the project
The script configuration is made in the noip_updater.conf file. You can open and modify it with a plain text editor. This file must be in the same path where the NoIPUpdater is stored.
Just execute the script issuing the command python noip_updater.py to update the hostname indicated in the configuration file.
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