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15 Useful Free and Open Source DNS Clients

DNS is one of these things many take for granted that is critical to using the internet. Without DNS, the internet breaks.

This roundup selects a motley collection of useful DNS tools.

dyndnsc is a command line client for sending updates to dynamic dns (ddns, dyndns) services.

In-a-dyn is a small and simple Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client with HTTPS support.

dnsupdate is a dynamic DNS client that has first-class support for IPv6 and aims to be easily configurable

GoDNS is a cross-platform dynamic DNS (DDNS) client tool written in the Go programming language.

dness is a dynamic DNS client which updates the WAN IP address on the DNS server.

wig is a simple and lightweight DNS client written in the C language.

ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on many dynamic DNS services. It uses curl for internet access.

awl is a command-line DNS lookup tool that supports DNS queries over UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTPS, DNSCrypt, and QUIC.