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Systemd Service file for no-ip.com dynamic ip updater
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noip2.service
# Simple No-ip.com Dynamic DNS Updater
#
# By Nathan Giesbrecht (http://nathangiesbrecht.com)
#
# 1) Install binary as described in no-ip.com's source file (assuming results in /usr/local/bin)
# 2) Run sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2 -C to generate configuration file
# 3) Copy this file noip2.service to /etc/systemd/system/
# 4) Execute `sudo systemctl daemon-reload`
# 5) Execute `sudo systemctl enable noip2`
# 6) Execute `sudo systemctl start noip2`
#
# systemd supports lots of fancy features, look here (and linked docs) for a full list:
# http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
[Unit]
Description=No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater
After=network.target
After=syslog.target
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=noip.service
[Service]
# Start main service
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/noip2
Restart=always
Type=forking
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boomshadow commented Mar 2, 2017

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed!
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jeandoyon commented Mar 16, 2017

Thank you!
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audip commented Apr 28, 2017

Thanks
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jorgejch commented Jun 10, 2017

Thx!
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bhundven commented Jul 2, 2017

👍
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saulodebaco commented Jul 12, 2017

Tks a lot!
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aprobinda commented Jul 21, 2017

Thank you!
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aaugusto-ies commented Aug 29, 2017 •
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Thank you! It's perfect: short, concise and to the target!
It worked flawlessly in a Raspeberry Pi 3 with opensuse Leap 43.2
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poppycocker commented Sep 8, 2017

Great work 👍 👍 👍
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janhar commented Sep 16, 2017

Thanks
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Marenostrum81 commented Oct 2, 2017

Many thanks!
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olihey commented Nov 25, 2017

Thanks
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skjnldsv commented Dec 26, 2017

Thank you! :)
Works perfectly on rpi B+ under Raspbian!
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ghost commented Feb 2, 2018

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431368
Can't gethostbyname for dynupdate.no-ip.com
Can't get our visible IP address from ip1.dynupdate.no-ip.com

for those that have this error on boot, just change replace:
[Unit]
Description=No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

Thank you for snippets :)
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lptrickmccarty commented Mar 12, 2018

Very awesome!!!! Thank you!!!!
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stantonfinley commented May 12, 2018

Don't forget to do a "sudo systemctl enable noip2.service" to enable this and create the proper symlinks. Then it will run on reboot.
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krystof1119 commented Jul 11, 2018

Thanks! Wrote this myself WAY too many times... but this one is more reliable, somehow.
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nemet commented Jul 26, 2018

Thanks!
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robinastedt commented Aug 6, 2018

Thanks! Couldn't get mine to work...
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OdeToSpot commented Sep 5, 2018

Thanks! Works like a charm :)
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jwmarcus commented Oct 2, 2018 •
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Perfect! Worked right out of the box for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Thanks for sharing!
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BurhanKhan1 commented Oct 19, 2018

Awesome
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Odel commented Nov 22, 2018

Thanks!
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oldfellla commented Dec 4, 2018

Thanks dude, that's great for a lazy ass like me :-)
Awesome!
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fabricioitajuba commented Dec 25, 2018

Thank you!
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jonopare commented Jan 23, 2019

👍 👍
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hanhha commented Feb 11, 2019

Thank you very much. It saved me several hours as I've ever remember them.
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Plotnus commented Jun 7, 2019

Thanks!
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tedheadster commented Jun 20, 2019

So I think there is a problem. I don't think it re-runs this periodically to update network changes (at least it does not on my machine). Is there a change we can make to do this?
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tedheadster commented Jun 20, 2019

I figured it out. It turns out the noip2 binary defaults to updating only every 30 DAYS (not minutes). Oddly, you have to do this to change the config file default:

pkill noip2 # stop running daemon
/usr/local/bin/noip2 -U 30 # rewrite /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf files with new data
/usr/local/bin/noip2 # restart actual daemon; previous step does NOT do this
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Plotnus commented Jun 20, 2019 •
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I think the issue here is that when we go to the no-ip2 website we see that our ip hasn't updated for longer than the interval we set.

This happens because, with default values, noip2 only sends updates when the ip changes.

If you want to change this default behavior, you'll want to change two values in noip2.c

  • change the line #define FORCE_UPDATE 0 to #define FORCE_UPDATE 1
  • change the line #define FORCE_INTERVAL (1440 * 30) to be the time period in minutes that you want to force an update. for example if we want to update every 15 minutes we should change it to #define FORCE_INTERVAL(15)

Once you have done this rerun make clean install.
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DanielFloris commented Jun 21, 2019

Can anyone help me. When I check status, I always get :

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/noip2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-06-21 12:59:07 BST; 10s ago
  Process: 7405 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/noip2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 7406 (code=exited, status=255)

Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: noip2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: noip2.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater.
Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: noip2.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater.
Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: noip2.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 21 12:59:07 raspberrypi systemd[1]: noip2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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MarkRMonaco commented Jul 15, 2019

Thanks!
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plao commented Aug 13, 2019 •
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Many thanks, Nathan! You have done the trick :-) It works like a charm...
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skewty commented Aug 23, 2019

In between steps 3 and 4 you are missing a step.

See missing step 4) below:

# 3) Copy this file noip2.service to /etc/systemd/system/
# 4) Execute `sudo systemctl daemon-reload`
# 5) Execute `sudo systemctl enable noip2`
# 6) Execute `sudo systemctl start noip2`
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NathanGiesbrecht commented Aug 25, 2019

In between steps 3 and 4 you are missing a step.

See missing step 4) below:

# 3) Copy this file noip2.service to /etc/systemd/system/
# 4) Execute `sudo systemctl daemon-reload`
# 5) Execute `sudo systemctl enable noip2`
# 6) Execute `sudo systemctl start noip2`

Thanks!
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flyingstones commented Sep 11, 2019

Thanks! Why noip.com not reffer to here!?!? Just envy???

Great job!
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DesertRider commented Oct 16, 2019

Works great!

Thanks for the clean & simple solution!
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danilomagrini commented Oct 30, 2019

Why the service run as "nobody"? How to make it run as "root"?

root 5409 0.0 0.0 21224 2748 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root 5410 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root 5411 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
nobody 5412 0.0 0.0 4832 1956 ? Ss 01:33 0:00 /usr/local/bin/noip2
root 5413 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root 5414 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
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NathanGiesbrecht commented Oct 30, 2019

Why the service run as "nobody"? How to make it run as "root"?

root 5409 0.0 0.0 21224 2748 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root 5410 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root 5411 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
nobody 5412 0.0 0.0 4832 1956 ? Ss 01:33 0:00 /usr/local/bin/noip2
root 5413 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root 5414 0.0 0.0 21224 2744 ? S 01:33 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd

I don't think it needs to run as a privileged user as it's not updating anything on your own system. But if you're having problems I'd suggest checking out the SystemD service file docs https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
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santiagocarod commented Dec 10, 2019

Thanks!
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saqibj commented Mar 29, 2020

Thank you, folks!
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folax commented Apr 20, 2020

Thank you. It's work fine.
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JamesCordell commented May 1, 2020

yessss thanks
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amunozf commented May 8, 2020

Very good. Thanks.
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oregonpillow commented May 23, 2020

Awesome!! I would like to add, for anyone running a VPN on boot as well (using OpenVPN), perhaps you want the noip2 service to wait until VPN is connected before updating address. In this case just change the Requires and After:

[Unit]
Description=No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater
Requires=sys-devices-virtual-net-tun0.device
After=sys-devices-virtual-net-tun0.device

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=noip.service

[Service]
# Start main service
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/noip2
Restart=always
Type=forking
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nag-audio commented Jun 17, 2020

very good! thnx
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syafiqfaiz commented Jul 3, 2020

I am getting error here.

➜  system sudo systemctl status noip2
● noip2.service - No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/noip2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-07-03 21:42:24 +08; 20s ago
    Process: 23625 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/noip2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 23626 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)

Jul 03 21:42:24 pop-os systemd[1]: noip2.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jul 03 21:42:24 pop-os systemd[1]: Stopped No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater.
Jul 03 21:42:24 pop-os systemd[1]: noip2.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 03 21:42:24 pop-os systemd[1]: noip2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 03 21:42:24 pop-os systemd[1]: Failed to start No-ip.com dynamic IP address updater.

what I did wrong?
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mfoglio commented Jul 5, 2020 •
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Same issue here.

Hover running:
sudo noip2 -S
Output:

1 noip2 process active.

Process 1009, started as noip2, (version 2.1.9)
Using configuration from /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf
Last IP Address set 0.0.0.0
Account foglio.matteo@gmail.com
configured for:
	host  k8s-mfoglio.ddns.net
Updating every 5 minutes via /dev/wlx281878338e41 with NAT enabled.

So it might be still working fine. Not sure.
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