ddclient VS docker-swag

Compare ddclient vs docker-swag and see what are their differences.

ddclient

This is the new home for ddclient. Ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on 'Dynamic DNS Network Services' free DNS service. It currently supports a lot of different routers and a few different services. (by ddclient)

docker-swag

Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with php support and a built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client. It also contains fail2ban for intrusion prevention. (by linuxserver)
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ddclient docker-swag
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1.6 9.2
9 months ago 5 days ago
Perl Dockerfile
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ddclient

Posts with mentions or reviews of ddclient. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.
  • DDclient and Cloudflare (Dynamic DNS)
    2 projects | /r/SelfHosting | 2 Oct 2023
    Check your distribution's repos first, but Ddclient doesn’t have an automatic installation procedure. Get the tar-file from https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/releases and untar it. Copy the perl script to your favorite location (ex. /usr/sbin) and create a
  • Install ddclient on pfSense?
    2 projects | /r/PFSENSE | 20 May 2023
    As I recall ddclient is a perl script or some such. It should be relatively easy to just download and build it. https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/releases
  • [Question] ddclient with porkbun domain and their API
    2 projects | /r/HomeNetworking | 30 Apr 2023
    FROM alpine:3.17.3 RUN apk update && apk upgrade RUN apk add git make autoconf automake perl-io-socket-inet6 perl-io-socket-ssl WORKDIR /opt RUN git clone https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient.git WORKDIR /opt/ddclient RUN ./autogen && ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/ddclient --localstatedir=/var RUN make && make VERBOSE=1 check && make install RUN rm /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf && touch /opt/ddclient.config && ln -s /opt/ddclient.config /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf RUN chmod 600 /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh"] CMD ["-c", "ddclient; while true; do sleep 3600; done"]
    2 projects | /r/HomeNetworking | 30 Apr 2023
    Hello u/porkbunregistrar. I tried to use ddclient with porkbun. I use latest ddclient image from linuxserver.io Here link to dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/ddclient/tags They use version 3.10.0 On the official github repository https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient current version is 3.10.0 also.
  • Inadyn an alternative Dynamic DNS Client from DDclient
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 Apr 2023
    So a came accros Inadyn which compared to the current state of DDclient, is being actively maintained. More info here from what i am talking about.
  • Selfhosted duckdns equivalent?
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 Apr 2023
    You can use ddclient, it supports a lot of DNS providers: https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient
  • What Python script could you not live without?
    4 projects | /r/Python | 29 Dec 2022
    I did try using ddclient (https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient) before writing my own script but couldnt get it to work on my rpi.
  • Which option to use to create a private network (VPN) for all my devices which I can connect to from anywhere
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Dec 2022
  • A guide for getting started with Self Hosting
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2022
    If someone has to deal with dynamic IP addresses and wants to use dynamic DNS as well, there's also the pretty nice ddclient package: https://ddclient.net/

    I've been using it with NameCheap pretty successfully for a while now, here's an example of some of the integrations it supports: https://ddclient.net/protocols.html (sadly no DigitalOcean integration as of yet, but this might be of use to others)

  • Doubt about reverse proxy and dynamic IP
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Jul 2022
    You would create one A record and use something like ddclient to update the IP address whenever it changes. Then create as many CNAME records (these are like an alias) as you want and point them to the A record.

docker-swag

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker-swag. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ddclient and docker-swag you can also consider the following projects:

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

authentik - The authentication glue you need.

traefik-examples - docker-compose configurations examples for traefik

oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.

authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

docker-pihole-unbound - Run Pi-Hole + Unbound on Docker

caddy-docker-proxy - Caddy as a reverse proxy for Docker

plex-nginx-reverseproxy - Configuration to serve Plex Media Center https://plex.tv using Nginx https://nginx.com

crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.