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BIND

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System.

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/

djbdns

The djbdns program is a simple and secure DNS implementation created by Daniel J. Bernstein due to his frustrations with repeated BIND security holes.

Downloads and Documentation

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

dents

dents is a server implementation of the Internet’s Domain Name System with a focus on security, maintability and extensibility via modules.

Downloads and Documentation

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dents/

Xyria:DNSd

Xyria:DNSd is an high performance DNS server that supports only the most important features and resource records while being extremely fast and secure. It also supports round-robin load balancing.

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.doomed-reality.org/site/projekte/xyria/index.html

PowerDNS

PowerDNS is a versatile DNS server, written in C++ and licensed under the GPL. It runs on most Unix derivatives and on Microsoft Windows. 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. Anecdotal evidence suggests that around 10% of all world domains are powered by this nameserver, 49% of the German .DE zone and 7% of the .NET zone.

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.powerdns.com/

pdnsd

pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers (for example in dial-in networking).

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd/index.html

MaraDNS

MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service (DNS), an essential internet service.

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.maradns.org/

Dual DHCP DNS Server

Combined DHCP/DNS Server for Small LAN. DHCP Server alots/renew host addresses and DNS Server first try resolving from DHCP alotted names then from Cache then only forwarding to External DNS Servers. BOOTP Suppot, Auto Config and auto Dynamic DNS update.

Downloads and Documentation

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhcp-dns-server/

Oak DNS Server

Oak is an authoritative and recursive DNS Server. It supports most modern nameserver features and is intended as an alternative for BIND.

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.digitallumber.com/oak/

sheerdns

sheerdns is a master DNS server whose zone records are stored on a One-Record-Per-File bases. Because of this, it is the simplest of any DNS to configure, the easiest to update, and the most efficient for networks that experience a lot of updates (for example master servers for dynamic IP address ranges). You never have to restart it; any updates are available immediately without having to notify the sheerdns process.

Downloads and Documentation

http://threading.2038bug.com/sheerdns/

Zero Calorie DNS Server

The Zero Calorie DNS is a domain name server for which the binary weighs in at 26K, that has no dependencies other than the minimal FreeBSD 6.0 installation. The server responds to “name server” (NS), “start of authority” (SOA), “address record” (A), “reverse address” (PTR), and “mail exchanger” (MX) requests. The server is fairly fast because the feature set has been trimmed down to the bare minimum. A few things are hard-coded so that a two minute setup is easy to accomplish. The hard-coding means that it may not be for everyone, however.

Downloads and Documentation

http://www.datazygte.com/downloads.html

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