Knot Resolver
Knot Resolver (a.k.a. kresd) is a full (recursive), caching DNS resolver. It is designed to scale from small home-office networks to providing DNS servers at the scale of ISPs. Knot Resolver supports DNSSEC validation, which is enabled by default.
Installation
Install the knot-resolver package.
Configuration
Start/enable kresd@1.service
.
To use Knot Resolver as the local resolver, configure 127.0.0.1
and ::1
as your nameservers in resolv.conf(5). For example:
/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver ::1 nameserver 127.0.0.1 options edns0 trust-ad
By default, the resolver will listen on 127.0.0.1
and ::1
, ports 53
and 853
(DNS over TLS). If the resolver should be accessible from other hosts, configure other network interfaces in /etc/knot-resolver/kresd.conf
with net.listen()
. Refer to Knot Resolver documentation for more information.
0.0.0.0
and ::
).If the resolver should respect entries from the /etc/hosts
file, add a hints.add_hosts()
line to /etc/knot-resolver/kresd.conf
.
Knot Resolver and dnsmasq
If dnsmasq is used for managing DHCP, then advertising a kresd instance works like any other external DNS server would: By adding an dhcp-option=option:dns-server,<Server Address>
line to the dnsmasq configuration file.
Note that a default configuration of dnsmasq will clash with the default configuration of kresd, since both will attempt to use port 53
. Disable the dnsmasq DNS functionality (port=0
), or assign a different port to either service.