flamethrower vs PowerDNS

flamethrower

a DNS performance and functional testing utility supporting UDP, TCP, DoT and DoH (by DNS-OARC)

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PowerDNS

PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist (by PowerDNS)

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flamethrower		PowerDNS
	Project
3	Mentions	28
313	Stars	3,375
1.6%	Growth	1.6%
3.7	Activity	10.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C++	Language	C++
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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flamethrower

Posts with mentions or reviews of flamethrower. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Tool to Benchmark Self-Hosted DNS (DNS-over-TLS) ?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 12 Feb 2023

flamethrower: https://github.com/DNS-OARC/flamethrower
Recursive resolver for >3 million public queries per day?
1 project | /r/dns | 12 Sep 2022

If you're concerned about the tests I'd recommend https://github.com/DNS-OARC/flamethrower
Tools to flood DNS/DNSSEC queries?
1 project | /r/AskNetsec | 8 Sep 2021

PowerDNS

Posts with mentions or reviews of PowerDNS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-20.

PowerDNS Starts to Use Rust
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2023
Dose anyone know a powerfull DNS server for game ?
1 project | /r/dns | 26 May 2023

Excuse me, PowerDNS is clearly the most powerfull DNS-server.
Anyplans for ODOH?
1 project | /r/Quad9 | 10 Apr 2023
When will we get DoH3? DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) support would be nice.
1 project | /r/Quad9 | 23 Mar 2023

When it's implemented in dnsdist: https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/8914
Best Open Source Software/Application/Tools
4 projects | /r/sysadmin | 20 Mar 2023
HomeLab DNS Management? Example.com to a Local Server | Tool for editing IP based DNS for Whole Home Network.
1 project | /r/homelab | 12 Dec 2022

I run https://www.powerdns.com/
Selfhost NextDNS?
2 projects | /r/nextdns | 8 Dec 2022
Ask HN: How can a total beginner start with self-hosting
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2022
pdns-recursor: Use SNI hostname for DoT forward-zones?
1 project | /r/dns | 15 Sep 2022
PowerDNS [Error] Unable to retrieve metadata for zone example.com
1 project | /r/dns | 14 Aug 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flamethrower and PowerDNS you can also consider the following projects:

c-ares - A C library for asynchronous DNS requests

Unbound - Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Halide - a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation

Bind - Mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab. Any issues and PRs opened here will be closed without a comment.

ArrayFire - ArrayFire: a general purpose GPU library.

Knot DNS - A mirrored repository

lunchtoast - A command-line tool for functional testing of console applications

CoreDNS - CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

Knot Resolver - Knot Resolver - resolve DNS names like it's 2024

NSD - The NLnet Labs Name Server Daemon (NSD) is an authoritative, RFC compliant DNS nameserver.

dnsmasq - mirror of dnsmasq (git://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq.git ). This account is NOT maintained by dnsmasq developers. I am happy to give account to them. Please feel free to contact me. 1584171677[at]qq[dot]com

external-dns - Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services