j0lt vs Unbound

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j0lt		Unbound
	Project
1	Mentions	40
37	Stars	2,797
-	Growth	3.9%
1.8	Activity	9.5
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 4 hours ago
C	Language	C
-	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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j0lt

Posts with mentions or reviews of j0lt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

DNS amplification attack tool i wrote :D
1 project | /r/DDoSNetworking | 6 Nov 2021

Unbound

Posts with mentions or reviews of Unbound. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.

Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024

dnsmasq and unbound are impacted to
https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/releases/tag/release-1....
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20...
As are any other DNSSEC validators that followed the specifications.
Bind9 has its problems but this is not its fault this time.
Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023

Are you familiar with https://pi-hole.net/ ?
In my house I want DNS resolution to be performed by my own DNS resolver (https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound), after I block ad domains.
DoH circumvents that.
F5 Forward Proxy DNS resolvers CNAME limit
1 project | /r/f5networks | 19 Jun 2023

So yep it's an unbound thing: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/438 there was a PR to allow a user to change the depth of a chase. I doubt F5 would have that version of unbound in any current software but support may be able to check or look at a lab 17.1 to see what version it is--you could then manually edit the conf file but it wouldn't persist through upgrades..
DNS Resolver does not return correct responses for all queries
1 project | /r/PFSENSE | 19 Jun 2023

That's confirms in issue#362 I found.
What upstream dns resolvers do you use?
1 project | /r/pihole | 14 Jun 2023

The last time I checked, Unbound does not support upstream DoH. You can configure it to reply to DoH requests from clients, but you can't use it to forward queries to another DoH provider like Cloudflare or Quad9. Has that changed? The pull request has been open for 3 years.
Can unbound operate in iterative mode?
1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 21 May 2023

And, while the documentation for unbound.conf doesn’t say a whole lot about the iterator module specifically as far as I can tell, the code says:
Running PiHole on a second server
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 May 2023

Gravity-Sync won't do that. But searching around on GH, I found this : https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/blob/master/contrib/unbound_cache.sh
DNS Delegation - How to DNSSEC?
1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 19 Mar 2023
pfBlockerNG-devel v3.1.0_7 / v3.1.0_14
2 projects | /r/pfBlockerNG | 8 Dec 2022

Version 1.15.0 Configure line: --with-libexpat=/usr/local --with-ssl=/usr --disable-dnscrypt --disable-dnstap --with-libnghttp2 --enable-ecdsa --disable-event-api --enable-gost --with-libevent --with-pythonmodule=yes --with-pyunbound=yes ac_cv_path_SWIG=/usr/local/bin/swig LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --disable-subnet --disable-tfo-client --disable-tfo-server --with-pthreads --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd12.3 Linked libs: libevent 2.1.12-stable (it uses kqueue), OpenSSL 1.1.1n-freebsd 15 Mar 2022 Linked modules: dns64 python respip validator iterator BSD licensed, see LICENSE in source package for details. Report bugs to [email protected] or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues
Anyone know of some open-source or community based name-servers?
1 project | /r/opensource | 21 Nov 2022

"Unbound" for example https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound

What are some alternatives?

When comparing j0lt and Unbound you can also consider the following projects:

AMP-Research - Research on UDP/TCP amplification vectors, payloads and mitigations against their use in DDoS Attacks

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.

gatekeeper - The first open-source DDoS protection system

PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

iodine - Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

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

repeater - Listen to a file for commands to run

Knot DNS - A mirrored repository

FTL - The Pi-hole FTL engine

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

nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

DoH