PowerDNS VS Knot Resolver

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

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PowerDNS Knot Resolver
28 9
3,366 334
1.4% 1.8%
9.9 9.5
7 days ago 8 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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.

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 PowerDNS and Knot Resolver 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

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

CoreDNS - CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

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

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.