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Technitium DNS Server

Technitium DNS Server gives you authoritative/recursive DNS server with ad blocking functionality on your own infrastructure.

GPL-3.0 Free technitiumsoftware/dnsserver · 7.9K technitium.com C# 2 deploy options 2FA E2E Encryption

Overview

Technitium DNS Server Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self hosting a DNS server for privacy & security. Technitium DNS Server

Self host a DNS server for privacy & security Block ads & malware at DNS level for your entire network! The project has 8K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under GPL-3.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

  • Works on Windows, Linux, macOS and Raspberry Pi.
  • Docker image available on Docker Hub.
  • Installs in just a minute and works out-of-the-box with zero configuration.
  • Block ads & malware using one or more block list URLs.
  • Supports working as an authoritative as well as a recursive DNS server.
  • Includes built-in Clustering feature to allow managing two or more DNS server instances from a single admin web console.
  • High performance DNS server based on async IO that can serve millions of requests per minute even on a commodity desktop PC hardware (load tested on Intel i7-8700 CPU with more than 100,000 request/second over Gigabit Ethernet).
  • Self host DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS, and DNS-over-QUIC DNS services on your network.
  • DNS-over-HTTPS implementation supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 transport protocols.
  • Supports DNS over PROXY protocol version 1 and 2 for both UDP and TCP transports.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

  • Windows: Download setup installer for easy installation.
  • Linux & Raspberry Pi: Follow install instructions from this blog post.
  • Cross-Platform: Download portable app to run on any platform that has .NET 9 installed.
  • Docker: Pull the official image from Docker Hub. Use the docker-compose.yml example to create a new container and edit it as required for your deployments. For more details and troubleshooting read the install instructions.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, docker compose, encryption, ssl tls, two factor auth.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel
elestio

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo
pikapods

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Authentication & Access

  • Two-Factor Authentication

Security & Privacy

  • Encryption
  • SSL / TLS / HTTPS

Category

Networking & VPN (99) Ad Blocking & DNS Filtering (11) DNS Management (10)

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