Best DNS Servers for Linux

pdnsd, written by Thomas Moestl, is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers (for example in dial-in networking).pdnsd solves a frequently...

NSD (Name Server Daemon) is an open source and freely distributed command-line software written in C and engineered to implement an authoritative only, complete, simple and high performance DNS (Domain Name System) server on Linux kernel-based operating...

Dnsmasq is an open source, completely free, easy to configure and lightweight command-line software designed from the offset to act as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and DNS (Domain Name System) forwarder on GNU/Linux and UNIX-like...

PowerDNS is a free and open source daemon nameserver that provides high-performance and can be modelled to act as an advanced and modern authoritative-only nameserver on GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as BSD distributions. A DNS server written from...

Open DHCP Server is a multi-Subnet, open source and multi-platform DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server designed to supports static and dynamic leases. The software also comes with PXEBOOT (Preboot Execution Environment boot) support, relay...

The Posadis Zone Editor is a graphical tool to edit DNS (Domain Name System) zones using DNS update.Because it uses zone transfers, you can simply edit the DNS zone, and have only the changes transferred to the DNS server.Requirements:· Gtk+, 2.0 or...

SendIP is a command-line tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a large number of options to specify the content of every header of a RIP, RIPng, BGP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, or raw IPv4/IPv6 packet.It also allows any data to be added to the packet. Checksums...

PowerDNS Recursor is an open source, high-end, free, portable and high-performance resolving name server, a command-line software that provides system administrators with a feature-rich and comprehensive set of technologies related to email and Internet...

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a command-line UNIX software that distributes an open source implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. It is comprised of a resolver library, a server/daemon called `named', as well as software...

adsuck is a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses and forwards all other queries. The idea is to be able to prevent connections to undesirable sites such as ad servers, crawlers and other nasties. It can be used locally, for the road warrior,...