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<H1>Other DNS software</H1>
<P>
This is a list of some other DNS software out there. Note that a
more detailed comparison between MaraDNS and the more notable projects
listed here is available in the <A href=advocacy.html>advocacy document</A>.
</P>
<H2>Freely downloadable DNS servers</H2>
<B>Caching DNS servers</B>
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<LI><A href="http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html">BIND 9</A> is
a complete rewrite of BIND, and, as such, probably does not have the
security issues that previous versions of BIND has. In fact, one of the
BIND developers found a security problem in earlier versions of MaraDNS.
Very full-featured, and is the reference standard for the newer DNS RFCs.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.powerdns.com">PowerDNS</A> is an authoritative
and recursive
DNS server with support for, among other things, SQL. I would like to
applaud the PowerDNS developers for making a <i>libre</i> release of this
software.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://unbound.net">Unbound</A> is a recursive-only DNS
server. </LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html">DnsMasq</A>
is a non-recursive caching DNS server. </LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.maradns.org/deadwood">My own Deadwood project</A>
is another non-recursive caching DNS server. </LI>
<LI><A href="http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html">DjbDNS</A> DJ Bernstein's DNS
package, which has both an authoritative DNS server and a caching
nameserver. It is now public domain software, no longer under
a restrictive license. I don't like DjbDNS myself: It's out of
date and no one has bothered to make a currently maintained fork of it.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdnsd/">pdnsd</A> is a
recursive caching DNS server. Paul Rombouts is (was?) the current
maintainer of this program.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://posadis.sourceforge.net">Posadis</A> is another DNS
server project, similiar to MaraDNS. This server is now both
a resolving and an authoritative DNS server. Hasn't been updated in
a while.
</LI>
</UL>
<B>Non-recursive DNS servers</B>
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<LI><A href="http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/">NSD</A> is an authoritative-only
DNS server which is compatible with BIND zone files.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://mydns.bboy.net/">MyDNS</A> is an authoritative-only
DNS server which uses MySQL as a database back end. The most currently
updated version appears to be <A href="http://www.mydns-ng.com/"
>MyDNS-ng</A>, the "next generation" version of MyDNS.
</LI>
<LI><A href="/download/non-maradns/sdns.tar.bz2">SDNS</A> is a project
written in the late 1990s by Sandia Labs. Like MaraDNS, this project
was written with security in mind. Since this is a government
project, the code is public domain. The program does not seem to be
downloadable anywhere, so I am mirroring it here. I would like to thank
Fred Cohen for informing me about this package.
<LI>The Pliant language/package
<A href="http://pliant.cx/pliant/protocol/dns/">comes with a
DNS server</A>. This DNS server can not recursively process DNS queries
given a list of root servers.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/">Twisted</A> includes a
non-recursive DNS server.
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<LI><A href="http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava/">DnsJAVA</A> is an authoritative-only
DNS server written in Java.
</LI>
<LI>The Eddit project includes a
<A href="http://eddie.sourceforge.net/lbdns.html">DNS server</A>
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://threading.2038bug.com/sheerdns/">SheerDNS</A> is a
simple non-caching DNS server that stores all records as their
own files.
</UL>
<B>Abandoned DNS server projects</B>
<p>
These are DNS server projects which have not released any files for a
significant period of time, and are not fully functioning DNS servers
(either because the program did not have basic DNS functionality when
abandoned, the program was not documented before being abandoned, or
because the program was abandoned so long ago that it is not fully
functional on today's internet).
<UL>
<LI><A href="http://www.digitallumber.com/oak">Oak DNS</A> is a DNS
server written completely in python. It is compatible (I think) with
both BIND zone files and cache files. The file can be downloaded
<A href="http://www.digitallumber.com/oak/code/oak-1.2.tar.gz">here</A>,
<A href="http://www.maradns.org/download/non-maradns/oak-1.2.tar.gz">here</A>,
or <A href="http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/oak-1.2.tar.gz">here</A>.
The most recent alpha version can be downloaded <A
href="http://www.digitallumber.com/oak/code/oak-1.4.tar.gz">here</A>
or
<A
href="http://www.maradns.org/download/non-maradns/oak-1.4.tar.gz">here</A>.
The most recent file in this alpha is from February of 2003; until
this program has a more recent update, I am marking this abandoned.
(Thanks, Michel Talon, for the update)
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://moodns.sourceforge.net">MooDNS</A> is another DNS server
project.
A CVS checkout on January 21, 2003 shows that no files have been updated
since July 20, 2002, except for a single readme file updated on August
1, 2002. This project is abadoned.
<p>
I have made a
<A href="moodns-20021011.tar.bz2">tarball available</A> for people who
do not want to bother with a CVS checkout.</p>
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dents">Dents</A> is a DNS
server that showed a lot of promise. Unfortunatly, no files have been
released since 1999.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/ens.html">Yaku-NS</A> is a
DNS server geared towards embedded systems. According to the changelog,
no one has made any changes to this software since Feburary, 2001.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://customdns.sourceforge.net">CustomDNS</A> has not released
any files since the summer of 2000.
</LI>
</UL>
<B>Other</B>
<UL>
<LI><A href="http://www.nimh.org/code/">LdapDNS</A> is a small DNS server
which converts DNS requests in to LDAP requests, without caching.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.dnspython.org/">DnsPython</A> is a DNS toolkit for
Python.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/">GnuDIP</A> is designed for
dynamically assigned IP addresses.
<LI><A href="http://jdrowell.com/Linux/Projects/jdresolve">JD Resolve</A> is
a tool written in Perl that uses DNS to resolve hostnames.
</LI>
<LI><A href="http://dproxy.sourceforge.net/">Dproxy</A> is a caching DNS proxy.
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<h2>Proprietary DNS solutions</h2>
<em>No, I don't really care to list every single DNS server that exists here.
I find the idea of using proprietary software for anything that
matters repulsive; however I try to keep this list up-to-date</em>
<UL>
<LI><A href="http://www.ultradns.com">UltraDNS</A></LI>
<LI><A
href="http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/nemnsw/nerr/prodlit/cnr30_ov.htm">Cisco
Network Registrar</A></LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.qip.lucent.com/">QIP</A> These people are obviously
hiding something, since they require a password to look up the
technical details of their product.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.incognito.com/products/DNSCommander/overview.jsp">DNS
commander</A></LI>
<LI><A href="http://www.jhsoft.com/">Simple DNS plus</A>. Only available for
Windows.
<LI><A href="http://www.menandmice.com/2000/2200_quick_dns.html">Yet another
DNS program; this one at least has a Linux port</A>
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