Self-hosted DNS software
DNS servers and management tools with advertisement blocking functionality, primarily aimed at home or small networks.
6 projects, sorted by GitHub stars (as recorded in the dataset). Star counts and dates come from the dataset snapshot, not live.
| Name | Description | License | Stars | Updated | Platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pi-hole | Blackhole for Internet advertisements with a GUI for management and monitoring. | EUPL-1.2 | 61,364 | 2026-10-17 | Shell, PHP, Docker | Source |
| AdGuard Home | User-friendly ads & trackers blocking DNS server. | GPL-3.0 | 37,567 | 2026-10-20 | Docker | Source |
| Technitium DNS Server | Authoritative/recursive DNS server with ad blocking functionality. | GPL-3.0 | 10,179 | 2026-10-17 | Docker, C# | Source |
| blocky | Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features (alternative to Pi-hole). | Apache-2.0 | 7,048 | 2026-10-19 | Go, Docker | Source |
| Numa | Ad-blocking DNS resolver with DNSSEC-validating recursive resolution, DoH/DoT/Oblivious DoH, ephemeral overrides, and local service domains, in a single Rust binary (alternative to Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS). | MIT | 1,890 | 2026-10-19 | Rust, Docker, Nix | Source |
| Maza ad blocking | Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system. | Apache-2.0 | 1,874 | 2026-08-14 | Shell | Source |