Posted on 04-13-2008 under linux

Referring to my previous post on getting a domain name for my dynamic IP home server, there was one thing left to do.

Recently I had to reboot my computer, because I had to get some work done on Windows. (Orcad don’t work on ‘Nix.) Long story short, noip2 didn’t start automatically on reboot. No surprise as nobody installed the startup script (duh!).

The noip2 tarball contains the init script for Debian, as well as for Gentoo and Redhat. This should be copied to /etc/init.d and renamed to noip2.sh, as is written down in the file itself. I don’t understand init scripts at all, but somehow this worked. Apparently noip2 runs under root, which is no big deal really. But you won’t be able to see the stats if you use

 noip2 -S

under normal user mode. You’ll have to change to root to see any stats.

[Update] Please read No-IP continued for updates.