dnsmasq VS Knot Resolver

Compare dnsmasq vs Knot Resolver and see what are their differences.

dnsmasq

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dnsmasq Knot Resolver
- 9
11 336
- 2.4%
0.0 9.5
over 8 years ago 1 day ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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dnsmasq

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning dnsmasq yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Knot Resolver

Posts with mentions or reviews of Knot Resolver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dnsmasq and Knot Resolver you can also consider the following projects:

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.

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

PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

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

Knot DNS - A mirrored repository

Yadifa - YADIFA is a lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities. Developed by the passionate people behind the .eu top-level domain, YADIFA has been built from scratch to face today’s DNS challenges, with no compromise on security, speed and stability, to offer a better and safer Internet experience.

Designate - OpenStack Technical Committee Decisions. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.