The Best 9 BIND Alternatives

  • 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

  • Unbound

    Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. The C implementation of Unbound is developed and maintained by NLnet Labs.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PowerDNS

    PowerDNS is a DNS Server that runs on most Unix derivatives. PowerDNS features a large number of different backends ranging from simple BIND style zonefiles to relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • djbdns

    The djbdns software package is a collection of Domain Name System tools created by Daniel J. Bernstein. It includes software for all the fundamental DNS operations and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Knot DNS

    Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative-only DNS server which supports all key features of the domain name system including zone transfers, dynamic updates and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • dhcpcd

    dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in RFC2131. It strives to be a fully featured, yet very lightweight DHCP client.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • NSD

    NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux