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AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript gRPC Go React Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#adblock #adguard #dns #dns-over-https #dns-over-quic #dns-over-tls

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-08-30
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,248 open

36,928

stars

Forks: 2,519
Commits: 4,571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ehang-io/nps

一款轻量级、高性能、功能强大的内网穿透代理服务器。支持tcp、udp、socks5、http等几乎所有流量转发，可用来访问内网网站、本地支付接口调试、ssh访问、远程桌面，内网dns解析、内网socks5代理等等……，并带有功能强大的web管理端。a lightweight, high-performance, powerful intranet penetration proxy server, with a powerful web management terminal.

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #firewall #go #gzip #http #https

Updated: 2024-05-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 526 open

34,224

stars

Forks: 6,072
Commits: 700 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

owasp-amass/amass

In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#attack-surfaces #dns #enumeration #go #golang #information-gathering

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-28
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 244 open

15,334

stars

Forks: 2,200
Commits: 2,874 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OJ/gobuster

Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #go #pentesting #tool #web

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-14
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

14,208

stars

Forks: 1,622
Commits: 607 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#anonymized #anonymized-dns #dns #dns-over-https #dnscrypt #dnscrypt-proxy

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-08
History: 8 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 6 open

13,730

stars

Forks: 1,139
Commits: 2,658 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pymumu/smartdns

A local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP for the best Internet experience, support DoT, DoH, DoQ. 一个本地DNS服务器，获取最快的网站IP，获得最佳上网体验，支持DoH，DoT，DoQ。

Stack

C Cargo

GitHub topics

#c #dns #dns-over-https #dns-over-tls #dns-server #dns64

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 318 open

11,308

stars

Forks: 1,246
Commits: 1,169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

is-a-dev/register

Grab your own sweet-looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cloudflare #dev #developer #dns #domain #foss

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

11,170

stars

Forks: 28,716
Commits: 89,885 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer

Technitium DNS Server

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #dhcp-server #dns #dns-client #dns-over-https #dns-over-quic

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 185 open

9,890

stars

Forks: 784
Commits: 4,127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

miekg/dns

DNS library in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-library #dnssec #go

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-03
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 3 open

8,782

stars

Forks: 1,216
Commits: 4,266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

six2dez/reconftw

reconFTW is a tool designed to perform automated recon on a target domain by running the best set of tools to perform scanning and finding out vulnerabilities

AI dev

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bug-bounty #bugbounty #bugbounty-tool #dns #hacking #nuclei

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-12-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

8,169

stars

Forks: 1,238
Commits: 2,375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yarrick/iodine

Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

Stack

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-tunnel #hacktoberfest #iodine #tunnel #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 25 open

7,980

stars

Forks: 598
Commits: 953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

go-gost/gost

GO Simple Tunnel - a simple tunnel written in golang

AI dev

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #dtls #golang #grpc #http #http2

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 103 open

7,488

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 558 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

0xERR0R/blocky

Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#ad-blocker #adblock #adblocker #dns #dns-over-https #dns-server

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-12
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 50 open

6,950

stars

Forks: 304
Commits: 1,899 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ogham/dog

A command-line DNS client.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#client #command-line #dns #rust

Updated: 2024-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-25
History: 5 history points
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 78 open

6,692

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

twisted/twisted

Event-driven networking engine written in Python.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#async #async-python #dns #event-driven #http #imap

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-07-09
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,833 open

5,992

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 32,004 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

elceef/dnstwist

Domain name permutation engine for detecting homograph phishing attacks, typo squatting, and brand impersonation

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#dns #domains #fuzzing #homoglyph #homograph-attack #idn

Updated: 2025-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-11
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 18 open

5,754

stars

Forks: 853
Commits: 645 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

NLnetLabs/unbound

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-privacy #dnssec #recursor #resolver

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-01-03
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 396 open

4,981

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 8,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mr-karan/doggo

:dog: Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang

Stack

Go Astro Vite Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-client #doh

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,474

stars

Forks: 145
Commits: 270 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PowerDNS/pdns

PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

Stack

C++ pytest Cargo Meson pip

GitHub topics

#authoritative #dns #dns-server #dnsdist #hacktoberfest #powerdns

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-11-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 920 open

4,468

stars

Forks: 1,022
Commits: 36,258 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DNSControl/dnscontrol

Infrastructure as code for DNS!

Stack

Go gRPC Go React Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#dns #dnscontrol #go #infrastructure-as-code

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-23
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

3,969

stars

Forks: 547
Commits: 3,524 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

octodns/octodns

Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#dns #infrastructure-as-code #workflow

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

3,774

stars

Forks: 445
Commits: 3,834 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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blechschmidt/massdns

A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration)

Stack

C CMake pip

GitHub topics

#bulk-dns #dns #dns-bruteforcer #dns-client #dns-lookup #dns-resolution

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,653

stars

Forks: 506
Commits: 318 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mschwager/fierce

A DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space.

Stack

Python pytest Poetry

GitHub topics

#discovered-domains #dns #domain #fierce #name-server #reconnaissance

Updated: 2024-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

1,816

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 145 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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truemail-rb/truemail

🚀 Configurable framework agnostic plain Ruby 📨 email validator/verifier. Verify email via Regex, DNS, SMTP and even more. Be sure that email address valid and exists.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-validation #dns-validator #email #email-validation #email-validator

Updated: 2024-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,282

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nsupdate-info/nsupdate.info

Dynamic DNS service

Stack

Python Django pytest PEP 517 Pipenv

GitHub topics

#django #dns #dyndns #dyndns-service #ipv4 #ipv6

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-09-17
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,134

stars

Forks: 123
Commits: 1,629 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

farrokhi/dnsdiag

DNS Measurement, Troubleshooting and Security Auditing Toolset

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-diagnostics

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-03
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 2 open

1,064

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BeryJu/gravity

Fully-replicated DNS and DHCP Server with ad-blocking powered by etcd

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ad-blocker #api #blocky #dhcp #dhcp-server #dns

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-06
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 56 open

927

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 3,096 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

poweradmin/poweradmin

Web UI and REST API for PowerDNS: zones, records, DNSSEC, users, with Terraform and Kubernetes integrations

AI dev

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer Yarn

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-management #dnssec #pdns #poweradmin #powerdns

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-04-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 151 open

922

stars

Forks: 294
Commits: 7,045 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pinterest/bender

An easy-to-use library for creating load testing applications

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #http #load-testing #thrift

Updated: 2024-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-14
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 6 open

664

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 84 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Cgboal/SonarSearch

A rapid API for the Project Sonar dataset

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #dns #enumeration #osint #osint-tool #penetration-testing

Updated: 2023-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

653

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 83 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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