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I have a script which contacts a few sources and tell them ‘the IP-address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is my current one’. My test web server has a dynamic IP-address through DHCP and amongst other things it needs to update a DDNS entry when its IP-address changes. However it’s not the only thing it does, so I will need to run my own custom script.
I suspect that this is possible by a attaching the script to be run for a given dhclient hook. However I still need to know which hook I should use, and how.
I would recommend to put the script into dhclient-exit-hooks.d. Because you should just change the DDNS entry, if the address change has been finished. However, I am not sure if dhclient-exit-hooks are called, if assigning an address fails.
Edit: The man pages (man dhclient-script) says, that the exit-hooks script will get the exit code in a shell variable (exit_status). So you could check it.