From b865862b80fd7dc3c57890c69b432b98527f4226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shreyas Zare
- Get a personal local DNS Server for privacy & security.
- Block Ads at DNS level!
+ Self host a DNS server for privacy & security
+ Block ads & malware at DNS level for your entire network!
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ Applications of using a locally hosted DNS server is limited only by the user's
- Works on Windows, Linux, macOS and Raspberry Pi.
- Docker image available on [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/technitium/dns-server).
- Installs in just a minute and works out-of-the-box with zero configuration.
-- Block Ads using one or more block list URLs.
-- Run [DNS-over-TLS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_TLS) and [DNS-over-HTTPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS) DNS service on your network.
+- Block ads & malware using one or more block list URLs.
+- High performance DNS server that can serve millions of requests per minute even on a commodity desktop PC hardware (load tested on Intel i7-8700 CPU with more than 100,000 request/second).
+- Self host [DNS-over-TLS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_TLS) and [DNS-over-HTTPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS) DNS service on your network.
- Use public DNS resolvers like Cloudflare, Google & Quad9 with [DNS-over-TLS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_TLS) and [DNS-over-HTTPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS) protocols as forwarders.
- Advance caching with features like serve stale, prefetching and auto prefetching.
- Supports working as an authoritative as well as a recursive DNS server.
@@ -32,13 +33,14 @@ Applications of using a locally hosted DNS server is limited only by the user's
- QNAME minimization support in recursive resolver [draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis-04](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis-04).
- QNAME randomization support for UDP transport protocol [draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00).
- DNAME record [RFC 6672](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6672) support.
-- ANAME propriety record support to allow using CNAME like feature at zone root.
+- ANAME propriety record support to allow using CNAME like feature at zone apex.
- APP propriety record support that allows custom DNS Apps to directly handle DNS requests and return a custom DNS response based on any business logic.
- Support for features like Split Horizon and Geolocation based responses using DNS Apps feature.
+- Support for REGEX based block lists with different block lists for different client IP addresses or subnet using Advanced Blocking DNS App.
- Primary, Secondary, Stub, and Conditional Forwarder zone support.
- Zone transfer over TLS (XFR-over-TLS) [draft-ietf-dprive-xfr-over-tls](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dprive-xfr-over-tls/) support.
- Secret key transaction authentication (TSIG) [RFC 8945](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8945) support for zone transfers.
-- Host domain names on your own DNS server.
+- Self host your domain names on your own DNS server.
- Wildcard sub domain support.
- Enable/disable zones and records to allow testing with ease.
- Built-in DNS Client with option to import responses to local zone.