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Description

Knot DNS Resolver is a caching full resolver implementation written in C and LuaJIT, both a resolver library and a daemon. The core architecture is tiny and efficient, and provides a foundation and a state-machine like API for extensions. There are four of those built-in - iterator, validator and two caching modules. Most of the rich features are written in Lua(JIT) and C. Batteries are included, but optional.

The LuaJIT modules, support DNS privacy and DNSSEC, and persistent cache with low memory footprint make it a great personal DNS resolver or a research tool to tap into DNS data. TL;DR it's the OpenResty of DNS.

Several cache backends (LMDB, Redis and Memcached), strong filtering rules, and auto-configuration with etcd make it a great large-scale resolver solution.

The server adopts a different scaling strategy than the rest of the DNS recursors - no threading, shared-nothing architecture (except MVCC cache that may be shared) that allows you to pin instances on available CPU c

Programming language: C

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 only

Tags: DNS Networking Domains

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