Installation
It comes pre-installed on most distributions and we recommend that you use the installed version unless you really need the latest version. In case of Debian based systems, you can use apt-get install ddclient to install it.

Be sure to put all the parameters in the configuration file before running DDClient. You can run DDClient as /usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon 300 -syslog which ensures that it is in daemon mode.

If you think your configuration is correct, but DDClient does not work as expected, you can enable debug and verbose messages by running ddclient -daemon=0 -debug -verbose -noquiet