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BIND9 (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)

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Claimed by Internet Systems Consortium... Analyzed about 17 hours ago

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including a Domain Name System server, a Domain Name System resolver library and ... [More] tools for verifying the proper operation of the DNS server. [Less]

387K lines of code

12 current contributors

5 days since last commit

594 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
4.18966
   
2 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: mozilla_p...
Tags authoritative bind dns dnssec nameserver network networking recursor resolver server

Dnsmasq

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  Analyzed about 4 hours ago

Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with ... [More] DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP for network booting of diskless machines. [Less]

37.2K lines of code

15 current contributors

20 days since last commit

52 users on Open Hub

Moderate Activity
4.52941
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: GNU_Gener..., gpl3
Tags bootp dhcp dns nameserver network networking resolver

PowerDNS

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  Analyzed about 7 hours ago

The PowerDNS server daemon is a versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends. These backends can either be plain zonefiles or be more dynamic in nature. Additionally, through use of clever programming and caching techniques, PowerDNS offers very high domain resolution performance. ... [More] Prime examples of backends include relational databases, but also (geographical) loadbalancing and failover algorithms. The PowerDNS recursor daemon which is also part of the PowerDNS compilation is a dedicated high performance recursive (aka caching-only) Nameserver that already powers some larger broadband ISPs and as of late learned to embed Lua Scripts making it possible to manipulate DNS Answers from within those Scripts. [Less]

394K lines of code

77 current contributors

1 day since last commit

25 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
4.11111
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C++
Licenses: gpl
Tags bind boost c++ dns epoll kqueue lua multithreading mysql nameserver network networking 3 more...

Knot DNS

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Claimed by CZ.NIC Analyzed about 10 hours ago

Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative-only DNS server which supports all key features of the domain name system including zone transfers, dynamic updates and DNSSEC.

157K lines of code

13 current contributors

14 days since last commit

6 users on Open Hub

High Activity
5.0
 
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl3_or_l...
Tags dns dnssec nameserver network networking server

BIND 10

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  Analyzed about 8 hours ago

BIND 10 is the next generation of BIND, the most widely-used DNS server on the Internet.

289K lines of code

1 current contributors

over 2 years since last commit

2 users on Open Hub

Inactive
0.0
 
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C++
Licenses: isc
Tags bind dhcp dhcpv6 dns dnssec nameserver

namebench

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  Analyzed about 17 hours ago

Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience? Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized ... [More] datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google. namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface. namebench was written using open-source tools and libraries such as Python, Tkinter, PyObjC, dnspython, jinja2 and graphy. ScreenshotsHere is what the nameserver overview looks like: Mean Response Duration Response Distribution Chart (First 200ms) There is also a full timescale graph as well. Command-line versionIf you are running the command-line version, you get something that looks like this: Fastest individual response (in milliseconds): ---------------------------------------------- Scarlet-1 BE ################# 9.97782 SYS-193.121.171. ################## 10.56194 Completel-2 FR ########################### 16.48903 CyberServ PSA NL ############################ 16.87098 OpenDNS ############################# 17.55810 Google Public DN ############################## 18.16297 UltraDNS ############################## 18.30387 Webline BE ###################################### 22.61090 Cesidio-A DE ########################################## 25.56205 Arcor/Vodafone-2 ##################################################### 32.37319 Mean response (in milliseconds): -------------------------------- UltraDNS ##################### 73.52 OpenDNS ####################### 81.91 Google Public DN ######################### 88.39 Scarlet-1 BE ########################## 92.90 SYS-193.121.171. ############################### 111.16 Arcor/Vodafone-2 #################################### 128.46 Completel-2 FR ####################################### 139.62 Webline BE ############################################## 165.15 Cesidio-A DE ################################################## 180.79 CyberServ PSA NL ##################################################### 191.80 Response Distribution Chart URL (200ms): ---------------------------------------- http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lxy&chs=720x410&chxt=x,y&chg=10,20&chxr=0,0,200|1,0,100&chd=t:0,16,17,17... Response Distribution Chart URL (Full): --------------------------------------- http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lxy&chs=720x410&chxt=x,y&chg=10,20&chxr=0,0,1631|1,0,100&chd=t:0,2,2,2,2... Recommended configuration (fastest + nearest): ---------------------------------------------- nameserver 156.154.70.1 # UltraDNS NXDOMAIN Hijacking nameserver 194.119.228.67 # Scarlet-1 BE nameserver 193.121.171.135 # SYS-193.121.171.135 [Less]

25.5K lines of code

0 current contributors

almost 8 years since last commit

1 users on Open Hub

Inactive
5.0
 
1 Review
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Mostly written in Python
Licenses: apache_2
Tags benchmark benchmarking dns google nameserver

Xyria:DNSd

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Xyria:DNSd is a performance optimized, authoritative-only DNS server for *nix-systems.

0 lines of code

0 current contributors

0 since last commit

1 users on Open Hub

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Mostly written in language not available
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Tags c dns nameserver network server

Zone Manager

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  Analyzed about 4 hours ago

Zone Manager is a tool designed for companies, that manage many domains, networks and associated DNS/DHCP servers. It allows having one central database of DNS/DHCP records and replicating them in a controlled way to various DNS/DHCP software or hardware: Amazon Route53, Cloudflare, BIND servers, MikroTik routers etc.

722 lines of code

0 current contributors

almost 2 years since last commit

0 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
0.0
 
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in PHP
Licenses: mit
Tags admin administration awscli bind bind8 bind9 cloudflare database devops dhcp dhcpd dns 8 more...

DSCng

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DSCng is a DNS server monitoring program. It is intended to one day replace the original DSC program. As of now, it is a work in progress that is made available to the public mainly for purposes of testing and to promote collaboration.

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0 current contributors

0 since last commit

0 users on Open Hub

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Mostly written in language not available
Licenses: bsd
Tags dns dsc log_analysis nameserver website

YADIFA

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  Analyzed about 10 hours ago

YADIFA is a lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities. Developed by the passionate people behind the .eu top-level domain, YADIFA has been built from scratch to face today’s DNS challenges, with no compromise on security, speed and stability, to offer a better and safer Internet ... [More] experience. YADIFA has a simple configuration syntax and can handle more queries per second while maintaining one of the lowest memory footprints in the industry. YADIFA also has one of the fastest zone file load times ever recorded on a name server. YADIFA was developed on FreeBSD and a GNU/Linux. It works on OSX and will be soon ported to other Unix flavours like OpenBSD and Solaris. A Microsoft Windows version is also on the cards. [Less]

278K lines of code

1 current contributors

7 months since last commit

0 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
0.0
 
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Tags dns dnssec nameserver network networking server