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## Overview

gdnsd is an Authoritative-only DNS server. The initial g stands for Geographic, as gdnsd offers a plugin system for geographic (or other sorts of) balancing, redirection, and service-state-conscious failover. The plugin system can also do things like weighted address/cname records.  If you don't care about these features you can ignore them :).

gdnsd is written in C using libev and pthreads with a focus on high performance, low latency service. It does not offer any form of caching or recursive service, and does not support DNSSEC.  There's a strong focus on making the code efficient, lean, and resilient.  The code has a decent regression testsuite with full branch coverage on the core packet parsing and generation code, and some scripted QA tools for e.g. valgrind validation, clang-analyzer, etc.

The geographically-aware features also support the emerging EDNS Client Subnet draft ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-subnet/ , http://afasterinternet.com ) for receiving more-precise network location information from intermediate shared caches.

## Resources

Project site: http://gdnsd.org/

Release downloads: http://downloads.gdnsd.org/

The code is hosted at Github: https://github.com/blblack/gdnsd/

Bug reports: https://github.com/blblack/gdnsd/issues

Wikified docs: https://github.com/blblack/gdnsd/wiki

Google Group for discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gdnsd

See the INSTALL file for details on prerequisites and build procedure
for working from the source tree or a source tarball.

The documentation is included in the source tree in POD format
and installed as manpages and textfiles on installation.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING

gdnsd is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

gdnsd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with gdnsd.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

