configuration for afraid-dyndns on Fedora and other similar distro.

2011-03-04 1 min read Fedora Linux

First install afraid-dyndns with the command:

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Now open the configuration file /etc/afraid-dyndns.cfg and we need to change the following:

Notify = root@localhost # leave empty to suppress notifications
CacheFile = /var/cache/afraid-dyndns/IP
AccountHash =

For the Account hash, head over to http://freedns.afraid.org/api/ login and then click one of the XML or the ASCII links there. Once the page has loaded, look at the URL which is of form:

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