PowerDNS VS dnsmasq

Compare PowerDNS vs dnsmasq and see what are their differences.

dnsmasq

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PowerDNS dnsmasq
28 -
3,366 11
1.4% -
9.9 0.0
6 days ago over 8 years ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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.

Knot DNS - A mirrored repository

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.

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

gdnsd - Authoritative DNS Server

metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols