Unbound Alternatives

Unbound is described as 'Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Unbound for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Unbound alternative is dnsmasq, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Unbound are PowerDNS, Numa DNS, WireHole and BIND.

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  1. dnsmasq icon
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    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.

    21 dnsmasq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. PowerDNS icon
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    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 relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms. A DNS recursor is also included as a separate program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Numa DNS icon
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    Portable DNS resolver in a single binary. Ad blocking, encrypted queries over DoH, DoT and Oblivious DoH, local service domains, and ephemeral overrides, all from your laptop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  4.  2 likes

    WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. BIND icon
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    BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. On Unix-like operating systems it is the de facto standard. It provides a robust and stable platform on top of which organizations can build distributed computing systems with the knowledge that those systems are...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. CoreDNS icon
     4 likes

    CoreDNS is a DNS server. It is written in Go. It can be used in a multitude of environments because of its flexibility. CoreDNS is licensed under the Apache License Version 2, and completely open source.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. 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 slackened in recent years.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8.  4 likes

    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 several DNS debugging tools which administrators use to diagnose misconfigured remote servers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9.  1 like

    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 modify the program free of charge, as per its license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. An advanced DDI platform providing centralized control, powerful automation and orchestration of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM environments, seamless Microsoft integration, robust RBAC security, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
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  11. NamedManager is an AGPL web-based BIND gui DNS management system designed to make the adding, adjusting and removal of zones/records easy and reliable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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