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23 Best Free and Open Source DNS Servers

September 12, 2025 Erik Karlsson Internet, Roundup, System Software

Domain Name System (DNS) is the internet’s directory service. We recommend the best free and open source DNS servers.

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System administration

PopuraDNS – simple DNS server

August 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

PopuraDNS is a simple DNS server with decentralized domain names support.

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System administration

dnsi – tool to investigate the DNS

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsi is a command line tool to investigate various aspects of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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System administration

dnsperf – measure performance of authoritative domain name services

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsperf and resperf are tools that make it simple to gather accurate latency and throughput metrics for Domain Name Service (DNS).

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TinyDNS – tiny DNS server

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TinyDNS is a tiny DNS server with simple JSON config written in C.

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System administration

ctrld – configurable DNS forwarding proxy

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

ctrld is a highly configurable DNS forwarding proxy. All DNS protocols are supported.

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System administration

Digger – modern DNS lookup tool with a graphical interface

August 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Digger is a modern DNS lookup tool that provides a user-friendly graphical interface for the dig command.

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System administration

octoDNS – manage DNS across multiple providers

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

octoDNS provides a set of tools and patterns that make it easy to manage your DNS records across multiple providers.

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System administration

Designate – multi-tenant DNSaaS service

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Designate is a multi-tenant DNSaaS service for OpenStack. It provides a REST API with integrated Keystone authentication.

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DomainMOD – manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

DomainMOD is a self-hosted open source application used to manage your domains and other Internet assets in a central location

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