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DNS server projects on GitHub

DNS servers for local network resolution, ad blocking, and fast lookups.

As of , the most-starred DNS server projects on GitHub are pi-hole (61.3K stars), DNSHE-FreeDomains (20K stars) and coredns (14.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 DNS server repositories with 137K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was DNSHE-FreeDomains, with +94 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+94

DNSHE-FreeDomains

dnshe/DNSHE-FreeDomains · ★ 20K

DNSHE is a free domain registration and DNS resolution service run by a Singapore youth public-interest team, giving developers, students, and open-source projects free subdomains under suffixes like us.ci, cc.cd, de5.net, and bot.cd, with Anycast DNS and full record management.

+16

pi-hole

pi-hole/pi-hole · ★ 61.3K

Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your network, without needing any software installed on the devices themselves.

+11

DnsServer

TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer · ★ 10.1K

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.

+9

mlmvpn_android

mlmvpn/mlmvpn_android · ★ 411

MLM VPN is an Android app that bundles many independent connectivity engines — Xray-core (VLESS/VMess/Trojan), AmneziaWG, WARP, Psiphon, Tor, Geph, OpenVPN and a custom MASQUE-based engine — behind one UI, plus an adaptive per-app router, a Cloudflare Worker control panel, and a game-latency booster, aimed at bypassing network restrictions.

The all-time top

9 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · pi-hole/pi-hole

    pi-hole

    Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your network, without needing any software installed on the devices themselves.

    61.3K
  2. #2 · dnshe/DNSHE-FreeDomains

    DNSHE-FreeDomains

    DNSHE is a free domain registration and DNS resolution service run by a Singapore youth public-interest team, giving developers, students, and open-source projects free subdomains under suffixes like us.ci, cc.cd, de5.net, and bot.cd, with Anycast DNS and full record management.

    20K
  3. #3 · coredns/coredns

    coredns

    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.

    14.4K
  1. 4

    sliver

    12.1KBishopFox/sliver · Go

    Sliver is an open source cross-platform adversary emulation and red team framework that organizations of any size can use to perform security testing.

  2. 5

    smartdns

    11.3Kpymumu/smartdns · C

    SmartDNS 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.

  3. 6

    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.

  4. 7

    MasterDnsVPN

    7.1Kmasterking32/MasterDnsVPN · Go

    MasterDnsVPN is a DNS tunneling VPN that smuggles TCP traffic inside DNS queries and responses to get online when regular connections are blocked, aiming for the same goal as DNSTT or SlipStream but using its own lower-overhead protocol.

  5. 8

    mlmvpn_android

    411mlmvpn/mlmvpn_android · Kotlin

    MLM VPN is an Android app that bundles many independent connectivity engines — Xray-core (VLESS/VMess/Trojan), AmneziaWG, WARP, Psiphon, Tor, Geph, OpenVPN and a custom MASQUE-based engine — behind one UI, plus an adaptive per-app router, a Cloudflare Worker control panel, and a game-latency booster, aimed at bypassing network restrictions.

  6. 9

    xdp-dns-evadeproxy

    131Oihalitz/xdp-dns-evadeproxy · Rust

    A 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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