The Best 9 dnsmasq Alternatives

  • Pi-hole

    Block ads for all your devices without the need to install client-side software. The Pi-hole blocks ads at the DNS-level, so all your devices are protected.

    Free Open Source Linux Raspberry Pi Debian CentOS Ubuntu Raspbian Fedora

  • Acrylic DNS Proxy

    Acrylic is a local DNS proxy which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • BIND

    BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. On Unix-like operating systems it is the de facto standard.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • 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

  • 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