Beacon DNS

Runs on a single vCPU, a small hill of RAM, and pure determination.

A DNS resolver with customizable & schedulable filtering for malware, trackers, ads, and other unwanted content.

Features

Blocking
- Supports blocking of ads, malware, adult content, dating & social media sites, video streaming platforms, and other content
- Blocking can be done network-wide or per device group
- Blocking can also be scheduled so that certain content is only blocked at certain times
Caching
- Supports caching of DNS records for up to the record's TTL which speeds up DNS lookups
- Supports serving stale DNS records while the record is refreshed in the background
Prefetching
- "Learns" your query patterns to prefetch subsequent queries before the device makes them
Client Lookup
- Supports looking up of the client's hostname
Statistics
- Allows you view statistics per device over a given period of time
API
- Allows you to get statistics
- Allows you to watch queries live as they're being made
- Allows you to get the current config

Getting Started

Go to this page to install and configure Beacon DNS.

Credits

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