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DNS over tls projects on GitHub
DNS servers and proxies using encrypted DNS over TLS resolution.
As of , the most-starred DNS over tls projects on GitHub are AdGuardHome (37.5K stars), gluetun (15.8K stars) and coredns (14.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 DNS over tls repositories with 103.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was AdGuardHome, with +25 stars in a day.
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AdGuardHome
AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome · ★ 37.5KA free, open-source network-wide DNS server that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your home network: it re-routes tracking domains to a 'black hole', so no client-side software is needed on the devices themselves.
+12portmaster
safing/portmaster · ★ 13.9KPortmaster is a free, open-source application firewall for Windows and Linux that intercepts all network traffic on your machine, letting you monitor and block connections per app, filter DNS, and block trackers and malware with good defaults out of the box.
+11DnsServer
TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer · ★ 10.1KTechnitium DNS Server is an open source, self-hosted DNS server that works as both an authoritative server and a recursive resolver. Its headline use is blocking ads and malware at the DNS level for an entire home or organization network, with configuration done in a web console.
gluetun
passteque/gluetun · ★ 15.8KGluetun is a lightweight, swiss-army-knife-like VPN client packaged as a single small Docker container. It tunnels through 20+ commercial VPN providers via OpenVPN or Wireguard and lets other containers or LAN devices share that connection.
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7 projects · by stars
- 37.5K
#1 · AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
AdGuardHome
A free, open-source network-wide DNS server that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your home network: it re-routes tracking domains to a 'black hole', so no client-side software is needed on the devices themselves.
- 15.8K
#2 · passteque/gluetun
gluetun
Gluetun is a lightweight, swiss-army-knife-like VPN client packaged as a single small Docker container. It tunnels through 20+ commercial VPN providers via OpenVPN or Wireguard and lets other containers or LAN devices share that connection.
- 14.4K
#3 · coredns/corednscoredns
A fast and flexible DNS server and forwarder written in Go, built as a chain of plugins — each plugin performs one DNS function. It is a graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.
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portmaster
13.9Ksafing/portmaster · GoPortmaster is a free, open-source application firewall for Windows and Linux that intercepts all network traffic on your machine, letting you monitor and block connections per app, filter DNS, and block trackers and malware with good defaults out of the box.
- 5

smartdns
11.3Kpymumu/smartdns · CSmartDNS is a local DNS server that forwards each query to multiple upstream DNS servers, measures which resolved IP responds fastest, and returns that IP to the client for a faster browsing experience. It also supports DoT, DoH, DoQ and DoH3 for privacy and can act as an ad filter by mapping specific domains to chosen IPs.
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DnsServer
10.1KTechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer · C#Technitium DNS Server is an open source, self-hosted DNS server that works as both an authoritative server and a recursive resolver. Its headline use is blocking ads and malware at the DNS level for an entire home or organization network, with configuration done in a web console.
- 7

xdp-dns-evadeproxy
131Oihalitz/xdp-dns-evadeproxy · RustA DNS proxy in Rust that sidesteps blanket ISP IP blocks: when an operator cuts off an anycast address shared by hundreds of Cloudflare sites, it rewrites that IP in the DNS response to an unblocked neighbor of the same prefix.
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