Alternatives to BIND for all platforms with any license

  • Unbound

    Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. The C implementation of Unbound is developed and maintained by NLnet Labs. It is based on ideas and...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • PowerDNS

    PowerDNS is a DNS Server that runs on most Unix derivatives. PowerDNS features a large number of different backends ranging from simple BIND style zonefiles to...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

    DNS Caching Add a feature

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  • dnsmasq

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Knot DNS

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • djbdns

    The djbdns software package is a collection of Domain Name System tools created by Daniel J. Bernstein. It includes software for all the fundamental DNS operations and...

    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • NSD

    NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server.

    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • Simple DNS Plus

    Simple DNS Plus is a commercial DNS server product that runs under Microsoft Windows with an emphasis on a simple-to-use GUI. Maintenance of the software appears to have...

    Commercial $ $ $ Windows

    DNS Caching Add a feature

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  • MaraDNS

    MaraDNS implements the Domain Name System (DNS), an essential internet service. MaraDNS is open source software: This means that anyone is free to download, use, and...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted

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  • dhcpcd

    dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in RFC2131. It strives to be a fully featured, yet very lightweight DHCP client.

    Free Open Source Linux

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