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DJBDNS is a collection of Domain Name System tools. It includes several
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components:
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- dnscache: local DNS cache. It accepts recursive DNS queries from local
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clients. It collects responses from remote DNS servers.
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- tinydns: fast, UDP-only DNS server. It makes local DNS information
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available to the Internet.
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- pickdns: load-balancing DNS server. It points clients to a dynamic
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selection of IP addresses.
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- walldns: reverse DNS wall. It provides matching reverse and forward
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records while hiding local host information.
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- dns library: handles outgoing and incoming DNS packets. It can be
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used by clients such as web browsers to look up host addresses, host
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names, MX records, etc. It supports asynchronous resolution.
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- dnsfilter: parallel IP-address-to-host-name converter.
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- dnsip, dnsip6, dnsipq, dnsname, dnstxt, and dnsmx: simple command-line
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interfaces to DNS.
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- dnsq and dnstrace: DNS debugging tools.
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This package includes IPv6 patches written by Fefe, see
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http://www.fefe.de/dns/ for more details.
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