Open Source Linux DNS Software
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View 6 business solutionsBrowse free open source DNS software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source DNS software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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DNS2SOCKS
DNS to SOCKS or HTTP proxy
This is a command line utility to resolve DNS requests via a SOCKS tunnel like Tor or a HTTP proxy. -
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A client for automaticly updating your EZ-IP.net, justlinux.com, dhs.org, dyndns.org, ods.org, gnudip.cheapnet.net, tzo.com, easydns.com dynamic hostname parameters. Includes daemon support that only sends updates if your IP address changes.
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TG WS Proxy
Telegram SOCKS5 proxy with WebSocket (WSS) for acceleration and blocki
TG WS Proxy is a lightweight and secure Telegram proxy designed to improve Telegram Desktop performance using a local SOCKS5 proxy with WebSocket (WSS) transport. It helps users bypass network restrictions, firewalls, and ISP throttling while maintaining full end-to-end MTProto encryption. The application runs entirely on the local machine and does not rely on external proxy servers, ensuring privacy and security. TG WS Proxy intelligently intercepts Telegram connections, detects the target data center (DC), and routes traffic through optimized WebSocket connections over TLS. This method improves connection stability and reduces latency, especially in restricted or unstable networks. If WebSocket transport is not available, the proxy automatically falls back to a direct TCP connection, ensuring uninterrupted Telegram access. TG WS Proxy supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, includes both GUI (system tray) and CLI modes, and offers easy setup with Telegram Desktop via SOCKS5 conf -
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theHarvester
E-mails, subdomains and names
theHarvester is a very simple to use, yet powerful and effective tool designed to be used in the early stages of a penetration test or red team engagement. Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs and URLs using multiple public data sources. -
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Gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
Gobuster is a tool used to brute-force. This project is born out of the necessity to have something that didn't have a fat Java GUI (console FTW), something that did not do recursive brute force, something that allowed me to brute force folders and multiple extensions at once, something that compiled to native on multiple platforms, something that was faster than an interpreted script (such as Python), and something that didn't require a runtime. Provides several modes, like the classic directory brute-forcing mode, DNS subdomain brute-forcing mode, the mode that enumerates open S3 buckets and looks for existence and bucket listings, and the virtual host brute-forcing mode (not the same as DNS!). Since this tool is written in Go you need to install the Go language/compiler/etc. Full details of installation and set up can be found on the Go language website. Once installed you have two options. You need at least go 1.16.0 to compile gobuster. -
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SmartDNS
Local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP
SmartDNS is a local DNS server. SmartDNS accepts DNS query requests from local clients, obtains DNS query results from multiple upstream DNS servers, and returns the results with the fastest access speed to clients, improving network access speed. At the same time, it supports the designation of specific domain name IP addresses, and high-quality matching to achieve the effect of filtering advertisements. Different from all-servers of dnsmasq, smartdns returns the resolution results with the fastest access speed. Supports Raspberry Pi, openwrt, ASUS router, windows and other devices. Supports domain name suffix matching mode, simplify filtering configuration, filter 200,000 records in less than 1ms. Supports domain name shunting, different types of domain names are queried to different DNS servers. Support standard Linux system (Raspberry Pi), various firmware of openwrt system, and native firmware of ASUS router. And support for Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). -
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TeemIp - IPAM and DDI solution
IP Address Management - CMDB - Ticketing - DNS and Zone Management
TeemIp is a free, open source, WEB based, IP Address Management (IPAM) tool that provides comprehensive IP Management capabilities. It allows you to manage your IPv4, IPv6 and DNS spaces: track user requests, discover and allocate IPs, manage your IP plan, your subnet space, your zones and DNS records in accordance with best in class DDI practices. At the same time, TeemIp's CMDB allows you to manage your IT inventory and links your CIs to the IPs they use. Project source code is located on https://github.com/TeemIP -
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Self Integrated DNS DHCP Server Open Source Freeware Windows/Linux. Works as DHCP or DNS Server or both. Using both services automatically adds DHCP allotted hosts automatically to DNS Server. Support Relay Agent, PXEBOOT, BOOTP, Zone Trasfer, DHCP Range Filters. Download.
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NextDNS
NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids, on all devices and on all networks. Determine your threat model and fine-tune your security strategy by enabling 10+ different types of protections. Use the most trusted threat intelligence feeds containing millions of malicious domains, all updated in real-time. Go beyond the domain, we analyze DNS questions and answers on-the-fly (in a matter of nanoseconds) in order to detect and block malicious behavior. With usually only a few hours between domain registration and the start of an attack, our threat intelligence system is built to catch malicious domains earlier than classic security solutions. Block ads and trackers on websites and in apps, including the most devious ones. Use the most popular ads & trackers blocklists, millions of domains all updated in real-time. -
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CoreDNS
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins
CoreDNS is a DNS server/forwarder, written in Go, that chains plugins. Each plugin performs a (DNS) function. CoreDNS is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduated project. CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server. The key word here is flexible: with CoreDNS you are able to do what you want with your DNS data by utilizing plugins. If some functionality is not provided out of the box you can add it by writing a plugin. CoreDNS can listen for DNS requests coming in over UDP/TCP (go'old DNS), TLS (RFC 7858), also called DoT, DNS over HTTP/2 - DoH - (RFC 8484) and gRPC (not a standard). Serve zone data from a file; both DNSSEC (NSEC only) and DNS are supported (file and auto). Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e., act as a secondary server (AXFR only) (secondary). Sign zone data on-the-fly (dnssec). Load balancing of responses (loadbalance). Allow for zone transfers, i.e., act as a primary server (file + transfer). Automatically load zone files from disk (auto). -
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Blocky
Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network
Blocky is a fast, lightweight DNS proxy and network-wide ad blocker designed for home labs and small networks that want Pi-hole-like filtering with more flexible DNS routing and modern protocol support. It blocks DNS queries using external deny lists while also supporting allow lists, and it can scope policies by client groups so different devices or households can have different rulesets. Unlike a single-purpose blocker, it supports advanced DNS behavior such as conditional forwarding and custom resolution for specific domains, letting you shape traffic in ways that fit split-horizon DNS, internal services, or privacy-focused upstream strategies. Performance is a major focus, with configurable caching, prefetching, and the ability to use multiple upstream resolvers simultaneously to reduce latency and avoid single points of failure. -
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iTXTech Daedalus
No root required Android DNS modifier and Hosts/DNSMasq resolver
No root required Android DNS modifier and Hosts/DNSMasq resolver. -
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inadyn-mt - dynamic DNS client
Multi-platform inadyn, inadyn-advanced DDNS client fork.
Multiple services fork of original multi-platform inadyn, and inadyn-advanced projects. Supports many update services, easily extendable for others including additional servers config file, custom response codes, custom parameter names, and custom update server type. Highly flexible with many per alias option parameters. Supports IPv4, and IPv6. Console, or installed as a service. Unicode. And other features. dyndns.org (dynamic, static, & custom) freedns.afraid.org zoneedit.com no-ip.com easydns.com sitelutions.com dnsomatic.com ipv6tb.he.net tzo.com dhis.org two-dns.de www.dnsdynamic.org dnspark.com regfish.de www.ovh.com joker.com system-ns.com changeip.com dnsexit.com nsupdate.com loopia.com domains.google.com (requires SSL bridge, like stunnel) duckdns.org di.fi ddnss.de dynv6.com selfhost.de -
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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. The project moved to github. See https://www.github.com/ddclient/ddclient for support.
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ExternalDNS
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and other
ExternalDNS synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with DNS providers. Inspired by Kubernetes DNS, Kubernetes' cluster-internal DNS server, ExternalDNS makes Kubernetes resources discoverable via public DNS servers. Like KubeDNS, it retrieves a list of resources (Services, Ingresses, etc.) from the Kubernetes API to determine the desired list of DNS records. Unlike KubeDNS, however, it's not a DNS server itself, but merely configures other DNS providers accordingly, e.g. AWS Route 53 or Google Cloud DNS. In a broader sense, ExternalDNS allows you to control DNS records dynamically via Kubernetes resources in a DNS provider-agnostic way. ExternalDNS' allows you to keep selected zones (via domain-filter) synchronized with Ingresses and Services of type=LoadBalancer in various cloud providers. ExternalDNS can become aware of the records it is managing therefore ExternalDNS can safely manage non-empty hosted zones. -
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Small HTTP server
Universal server
It is not only a web server, it is also Mail server, DNS server, FTP server, Proxy server, VPN server and client... All in one! This program will help you to open all the possibilities Internet can offer for your company - public site, provide Internet access and personal mailboxes for each employee! HTTP server. Server Side Includes. Regular expression in SSI. CGI interface for scripts (Executable files; Perl,PHP, or another external interpreters) ISAPI interface. Virtual hosts and directories Mail POP3 server. SMTP server. FTP server HTTP proxy server DNS server DHCP server HTTP TLS VPN server -
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OpenWrt-dist
A depot of OpenWrt device.
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Poweradmin is a web-based DNS administration tool for PowerDNS server. The interface has full support for most of the features of PowerDNS. It has full support for all zone types, for supermasters, full support for IPv6 and multi-language support.
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RadWebHosting-whmcs
Rad Web Hosting Domain Registrar module for WHMCS
Domains Registrar module for WHMCS to integrate API functionality for resellers directly into their WHMCS installations. Simplifies the automation of registering, transferring, and renewing domain name registrations. Rad Web Hosting account is required to receive API credentials. -
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C# DNS Client Library (100% managed code). Query domains to get MX records, CNAME and Address resource records from your application. All common DNS query types supported. Supports user-defined servers.
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phpDHCPAdmin
Manage your ISC DHCPD service
phpDHCPAdmin Manage the ISC DHCPD Service. Groups, User access levels, PXE, Multiple subnets, lease management, graphing features, classes support, multiple pool support. Built with security, flexibility and usage for large scale dhcp environments -
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A DNS server for Unix and Windows platforms, supporting authoritative service (master/slave) as well as caching. Also featuring a graphical master file editor (mfedit), a graphical DNS query tool (dnsquery) and a DNS programming library for C++ (poslib).
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IP change detection script for UNIX systems. Can be used to map static domain to dynamic IP. Works behind NAT. Uses HTTP browser or network interface to get public IP. To be used with task scheduler (Cron or like, sample crontab file shipped).
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KeexyBox
The box to keep the Internet under your control
KeexyBox allows you to do parental control, block ads, limit telemetry, and browse the Internet anonymously from your home network without installing any software on your devices. It also can be used to create a public wireless access point with the captive portal. It is a software program which requires a Raspberry PI box and which is installed on Raspbian. It constitutes a cut-off point between your devices (computers, tablets, smartphones, etc.) and your router or Internet box. KeexyBox acts as a default gateway and DNS server for the devices in your home network. It thus intercepts all connections to the Internet to carry out website filtering or to activate browsing via the Tor anonymity network according to connection profiles which you have configured. -
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MaraDNS is a fully open-sourced DNS server that strives to be secure. It is written in C (no C++) and is suitable for embedded systems.
