PowerDNS vs NSD

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PowerDNS		NSD
	Project
28	Mentions	-
3,366	Stars	409
1.4%	Growth	3.9%
9.9	Activity	9.2
7 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C++	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.

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

NSD

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PowerDNS and NSD 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

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.

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

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