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Version 5.4
Windows / Linux / macOS / Raspberry Pi
(.NET Core 3.1)
(.NET Core 3.1)
(Install Instructions)
Linux / Raspberry Pi Automated Installer / Updater
Run the above command in Terminal or using SSH to install or update the DNS Server. For more details and troubleshooting read the install instructions.
Read the change log to know what's new in this release.
The complete documentation for the HTTP API is available.
Source code available under GNU GPLv3 Licence on GitHub.
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Technitium DNS Server is an open source tool that can be used for self hosting a local DNS server for privacy & security or, used for experimentation/testing by software developers on their computer. It works out-of-the-box with no or minimal configuration and provides a user friendly web console accessible using any web browser.
Nobody really bothers about domain name resolution since it works automatically behind the scenes and is complex to understand. Most computer software use the operating system's DNS resolver that usually query the configured ISP's DNS server using UDP protocol. This way works well for most people but, your ISP can see and control what website you can visit even when the website employ HTTPS security. Not only that, some ISPs can redirect, block or inject content into websites you visit even when you use a different DNS provider like Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS. Having Technitium DNS Server configured to use DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS forwarders, these privacy & security issues can be mitigated very effectively.
Developers regularly use the hosts file for configuring an IP address for a domain under testing. However, using the hosts file is cumbersome at times and can only be used to resolve domain name to an IP address. With a fully configurable DNS server running on your local machine, you can configure not just simple A records (for IP address) but, also configure other types of records like CNAME or MX etc. This allow you to have more control and power when you want to do testing that simulates the exact configuration that you have running on production.
Applications of using a locally hosted DNS server is limited only by the user's imagination!
Block Ads At DNS Level
Technitium DNS Server allows you to configure Block List URLs that gets automatically updated daily to block ads on your network. The Quick Add option lists popular block lists available for you to choose from.
Privacy & Security
Technitium DNS Server supports using DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS protocols for forwarders allowing you to use popular public DNS resolvers like Cloudflare, Google & Quad9. These protocols provides privacy by encrypting your DNS traffic on the network and protects you from man-in-the-middle attacks.
Features
- Works on Windows, Linux, macOS and Raspberry Pi.
- Installs in just a minute and works out-of-the-box with zero configuration.
- Block Ads using one or more block list URLs.
- Run DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS DNS service on your network.
- Use public DNS resolvers like Cloudflare, Google & Quad9 with DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS protocols as forwarders.
- Advance caching with features like serve stale, prefetching and auto prefetching.
- Supports working as an authoritative as well as a recursive DNS server.
- CNAME cloaking feature to block domain names that resolve to CNAME which are blocked.
- QNAME minimization support in recursive resolver [draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis-04].
- QNAME randomization support for UDP transport protocol [draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00].
- ANAME propriety record support to allow using CNAME like feature at zone root.
- Primary, Secondary, Stub and Conditional Forwarder zone support.
- Host domain names on your own DNS server.
- Wildcard sub domain support.
- Enable/disable zones and records to allow testing with ease.
- Built-in DNS Client with option to import responses to local zone.
- Supports out-of-order DNS request processing for DNS-over-TCP and DNS-over-TLS protocols.
- Built-in DHCP Server that can work for multiple networks.
- IPv6 support in DNS server core.
- HTTP & SOCKS5 proxy support which can be configured to route DNS over Tor Network or use Cloudflare's hidden DNS resolver.
- Web console portal for easy configuration using any web browser.
- Built-in system logging and query logging.
- Open source cross-platform .NET Core implementation hosted on GitHub.
How To Get Started
- Download and install the DNS server. You can use the portable zip/tar.gz file too by extracting and run the DNS Server app.
- Open http://localhost:5380/ on your favourite web browser.
- The web console will auto login using default username 'admin' and password 'admin'. Don't forget to change the password to disable auto login!
- Optionally, configure forwarder DNS server IP addresses or URLs in DNS Settings so that the DNS Server uses them to resolve requests instead of doing recursive resolution by itself. You may configure any public DNS server like Google DNS, Cloudflare DNS or OpenDNS.
- Configure the DNS server's IP address in your network configuration and on other computers on the network if needed. You can use the built-in DHCP server to assign IP addresses and the DNS servers automatically on your local network.
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- Profit!
API Documentation
The DNS server HTTP API allows any 3rd party app or script to configure the DNS server. The HTTP API is used by the web console and thus all the actions that the web console does can be performed via the API. Read the HTTP API documentation for complete details.
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Help Topics
Read the latest help topics which contains the DNS Server user manual and covers frequently asked questions.
Support
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