I need something to update my account at noip with the correct external IP.
There are a few methods of doing it:
- NPM public-ip
- https://ipecho.net/plain
- Shell command dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
- My router knows my external IP so I could parse it or google / what is my ip / ...
- StackOverflow
- git clone this repo
- npm install # on OpenBSD it may take a while and be issued more than once (SQLite3)
- cp .env-temp .env
- $EDITOR .env
npm run updateIP
I use it on my server and my crontab looks like this:
$ crontab -l
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILTO=adam
HOME=/home/adam/noip-client
#
#minute (0-59)
#| hour (0-23)
#| | day of the month (1-31)
#| | | month of the year (1-12 or Jan-Dec)
#| | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sun or Sun-Sat)
#| | | | | commands
#| | | | | |
#### update IP every 3 hours and at every reboot
27 */3 * * * npm run updateIP
@reboot npm run updateIP
Every once in a while I receive an email from noip saying ACTION REQUIRED: $YOURHOSTNAME is Expiring Soon and I need to click on Confirm Hostname. Do not neglect it!
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If you see in your logs (in my.db) something like this YOUR_IP_IF_YOU_WANT_TO_PROVIDE it may and probably means you run this program simply with
node index, where it should be ideally run like thisnpm run updateIP. This way the correct IP will be provided (hopefully) OR there is a problem with your network. Check the error bit. -
The logged time is the UTC zone (JS function new Date().toUTCString()).