The Best 10 Acrylic DNS Proxy Alternatives

  • Squid

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted FreeBSD NetBSD OpenSolaris Solaris

  • dnsmasq

    Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • TinyProxy

    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • dns2socks

    DNS2SOCKS is a command line utility running to forward DNS requests to a DNS server via a SOCKS tunnel. Features Provides anonymous DNS for any Windows...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Pdnsd

    pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Lusca

    lusca is a fork of the squid -2 development tree.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • gate.js

    gate - Performance & scalable I/O forward & reverse HTTP proxy based on node.js + V8 a real alternative to Squid & NGINX

    Free Personal Mac OS X Linux BSD