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Re: Speaking of DNS server software...


From: Bryan Fields via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 05:21:04 -0400

On 8/8/25 13:19, William Herrin via NANOG wrote:
Can anyone recommend software for an authoritative DNS server where
the open source code is clean and well documented? I have an
anycast-related experiment I'd like to put together and I want to be
able to quickly shoehorn it into existing code.

PowerDNS has a very flexible backend system that might do what you need.
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/backends/index.html

I've written some SQL triggers to auto-populate zones before; there's a LUA or even a unix pipe backend that you can script with any language you want.

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