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I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v15 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. Download the latest update for Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi! Technitium DNS Server v15 This major…
Updated: 30 Nov 2025 Technitium DNS Server v14 release comes with the much awaited Clustering support. This feature is aimed to allow managing two or more Technitium DNS Server instances much easier by allowing the entire cluster to be managed by logging into the DNS admin web panel of any one of the instances in the cluster. The DNS server instances (or nodes), that are part of the cluster, still…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v14 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. Download the latest update for Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi! Technitium DNS Server v14 This major…
Technitium DNS Server v13 adds support for Catalog Zones [ RFC 9432 ] that allows automatic provisioning of DNS zones to one or more secondary name servers. This implementation has support for Primary, Stub, and Conditional Forwarder zones such that their respective secondary zones are automatically created by the catalog zone setup, greatly reducing the manual task that a DNS administrator would…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v13 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. Download the latest update for Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi! Technitium DNS Server v13 This major…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v12 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. Download the latest update for Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi! Technitium DNS Server v12 This is a…
You probably may have read an influential blog post Against DNSSEC and another one that follows it 14 DNS Nerds Don't Control The Internet by Thomas H. Ptacek and may have dismissed DNSSEC as unnecessary. I am calling it influential since this blog post comes up frequently at any debates that you may find online regarding DNSSEC, is listed in wiki articles , and also had an influence on me. If you…
If you have used certbot for automatic renewal of SSL certificates for your website using the HTTP challenge and are also running Technitium DNS Server to host your domain names then you can use certbot with DNS challenge to auto renew your SSL certificates. DNS challenge for certificate renewal has many advantages over HTTP challenge: DNS challenge allows renewing wildcard certificate for your…
Updated: 19 Apr 2024 Technitium DNS Server is a cross-platform, free, open source software that is easy to deploy and use yet pack powerful features. Starting with the version 11.0 release, the DNS server now supports DNS-over-QUIC encrypted DNS protocol in addition to existing DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS encrypted DNS protocols. With this update, you will be able to use DNS-over-QUIC protocol…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v11 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. Download the latest update for Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi! Technitium DNS Server v11 This is a…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v10 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. Download the latest update for Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi! Technitium DNS Server v10 This is a…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v9 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. This is a major release that adds multi-user role based access support. Download the latest update for Windows,…
The Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC) is an extension that allows you to digitally sign DNS records for your domain name. This allows a DNS client that supports DNSSEC validation to authenticate all the DNS responses for your domain name. It is important to note that DNSSEC provides authentication but does not encrypt the data in transit. Thus it is possible for an attacker on the…
A lot of people self host their own blogs or websites but its rare for someone to host their own domain name. For most people, the domain name hosting provided by the domain name registrar is sufficient for their use case. People who need more control and features usually use popular services like AWS, Cloudflare, etc. In this blog post, we will see how to host and configure your own name servers…
I am happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v8 , a cross-platform, free, open source software that can be used by anyone, be it a novice or an expert user. It features an easy to use web based GUI and works with default config that allows the server to run out-of-the-box. This is a major release that adds many core DNS features like support for DNSSEC validation and signed zones.…
Update (Oct 20, 2024): DNS server v13.1 now includes "Secondary ROOT Zone (RFC 8806)" option in Add Zone dialog reducing this entire blog post into a single click operation. Update (Sept 28, 2024): With the release of v13 of DNS server, there is no need to follow this blog post's requirement to create a separate DNS server instance to run the secondary ROOT zone. The v13 update now supports ZONEMD…
Technitium DNS Server version 6.0 has just been released with a new shiny feature called DNS Apps that allows you to build and run custom applications on your DNS server. Just like how a web application runs on a web server, think of a DNS application running on a DNS Server. This makes the DNS server more powerful allowing you to run custom apps based on your own business logic. Technitium DNS…
Updated: 2 May 2026 With Technitium DNS Server , you can not just consume DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), DNS-over-TLS (DoT), or DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) services using forwarders but you can also host these services yourself. There can be several reasons to host your own DoH, DoT, or DoQ service. You may wish to have better privacy by not sharing your data with public DNS providers. Or your network or ISP…
Firefox includes a quite useful option since more than a year now that enables the web browser to use DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol to encrypt all the DNS requests on the network. This feature promises enhanced privacy to users such that anyone on your network path, like your ISP, wont be able to monitor or log your DNS traffic. The DoH protocol also protects your DNS requests from Man In The…
I just discovered this exciting news that Technitium DNS Server and Technitium Mesh has been archived by the GitHub Archive Program in the Arctic Code Vault ! GitHub Arctic Code Vault GitHub Archive Program's mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing public open source code repositories in an archive built to last a thousand of years. GitHub took a snapshot of…
Updated: 3 Dec 2025 With the release of Technitium DNS Server v5, a new feature called ANAME resource record has been introduced. ANAME resource record implementation is similar to the IETF draft with respect to its core functionality that allows adding a CNAME like functionality to the zone root. Essentially, ANAME is similar to CNAME except that the authoritative DNS server resolves the A or…
I am really happy to announce the release of Technitium DNS Server v5. This version is a major upgrade with many new core features, a lot of memory and CPU optimizations, and multiple bug fixes done. Download the latest update now! Technitium DNS Server v5 Technitium DNS Server is a free, open source software that can be used by anyone be it a novice or an expert user. The server aims to have a…
Technitium Mesh , a successor to the Bit Chat project, has been released and is available to download directly from the Mesh website. Technitium Mesh Introduction Mesh is a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger that provides end-to-end encryption with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) . Mesh can be used on the Internet or on offline private LAN networks for private…
DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) are two new protocol options available for secure DNS transport. Of which DoH has been pretty controversial with strong opposition from notable people in the DNS community. There have been questions raised for even the existence of IETF DoH standard when DoT standard was already an option. Firefox has builtin DoH support with Cloudflare DNS configured…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a network wide DNS server for security , privacy and blocking Internet Ads on your private network! Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ With Technitium DNS Server version 2.2 release, it is now possible to run it on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Stretch) using .NET Core and we have a single line automatic installer ready to make it easy to get it running. Install DNS Server Just connect…