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Powerdns-recursor
Jul 20, 2023
Advanced DNS recursor
The PowerDNS Recursor is a high-end, high-performance resolving name server which powers the DNS resolution of at least a hundred million subscribers. Utilizing multiple processors and supporting the same powerful scripting ability of the Authoritative Server, the Recursor delivers top performance while retaining the flexibility modern DNS deployments require
- IPv4, UDP/TCP
- IPv6, UDP/TCP, 100 compliant
- Remotely pollable statistics for real time graphing
- Full support for all relevant standards
- Advanced anti-spoofing measures
- Reconfiguration without downtime
- Plain BIND zone files for “resolved hosting”
- Internal Lua-based scripted answer generation
- Question interception, answer reconditioning, NXDOMAIN redirection
- Including ‘block lists’ and security measures
- API for direct control rec_control
- Local and remote access
- DNS Response Policy Zones RPZ
- DNS64
Checkout these related ports:
- Zonenotify - DNS notify sender written in C
- Zonecheck - Perform consistency checks on DNS zones
- Zkt -
- Yandex-ddns - Use Yandex DNS as a dynamic DNS provider
- Yadifa - Authoritative nameserver with DNSSEC capabilities
- Wrapsrv - DNS SRV record command line wrapper
- Whoseip - Get information about IP addresses country code and network
- Wdns - Low-level DNS library
- Walker - Recover zone file information from servers that use DNSSEC
- Void-zones-tools - Prepare a list of void zones that can be readily fed into Unbound
- Vizone - Updates the serial number in one or more zonefiles
- Vhostcname - Synchronize DNS with server names and aliases from Apache vhost
- Utdns - Proxy UDP/DNS to TCP/DNS
- Updatedd - Dynamic DNS Update Client supporting multiple services
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