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How can I get ddclient to work with freedns?

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I use the dynamic DNS service at freedns.afraid.org for my 12.04 server. I had assumed that the protocols would be standardised and that ddclient would just work, but apparently not. I get this message in /var/log/syslog:

ERROR: Invalid update URL (2): unexpected status ()

I tried to use the updated version of ddclient from the alternative PPA described in this answer, but then I hit this error:

FATAL:    Error loading the Perl module Digest::SHA1 needed for freedns update.

FATAL:     On Debian, the package libdigest-sha1-perl must be installed.

And when I try to install that package, I get this:

E: Unable to locate package libdigest-sha1-perl

Which leads me to this bug report, which apparently has no solution. How to proceed?

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answered 2 Years ago feeous · Accepted Answer

Until ddclient is fixed, you can manually install the old module it wants:

sudo apt-get install cpanminus

cpanm --sudo Digest::SHA1

Free DNS's clients page and ddclient --help provide sample ddclient configurations. Restart ddclient for changes to take effect:

sudo service ddclient restart