WD My Book World ddclient

My router doesn't have a dyndns client unfortunately, so here goes a ddclient setup for WD My Book World

Keep in mind that you should already have ssh access and Optware installed.

Go root
su

Install ddclient, ddclient relies on perl, so perl will be installed as dependency
ipkg install ddclient

Install some perl modules for https support
ipkg install perl-io-socket-ssl

I had to create a symlink to perl library
cd /opt/lib ln -s perl5/5.8.8/arm-linux/CORE/libperl.so libperl.so

Configure ddclient
cd /opt/etc/ddclient
cp ddclient.conf-dist ddclient.conf
chmod 600 ddclient.conf


Edit ddclient.conf and change the values to suite your needs

daemon=300
syslog=yes
mail=root
mail-failure=root
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
ssl=yes 
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, web-skip='IP Address' # found after IP Address
protocol=dyndns2
login=username
password=pass
yourhostname.dyndnsdomain.dyndns.toplevel #example: wdmybook.ath.cx

If you want to run ddclient on startup, add ::sysinit:/opt/sbin/ddclient to /etc/inittab

Have fun!