PowerDNS offers three main products: the Authoritative Server, the Recursor, and dnsdist. The Authoritative Server and Recursor are separate components that can be mixed seamlessly, while dnsdist provides high-performance load balancing and DDoS protection.
The Authoritative Server answers questions about domains it knows about, but will not go out on the net to resolve queries about other domains. When the Authoritative Server answers a question, it comes out of the database, and can be trusted as being authoritative.
View DocumentationThe Recursor, by default has no knowledge of domains itself, but will always consult other authoritative servers to answer questions given to it. It's designed for high-performance recursive DNS resolution.
View Documentationdnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer that can be used to distribute incoming traffic across multiple DNS servers.
View DocumentationCloud-based DNS management solution.
Distributed storage solution for DNS data.
Tool to sync LMDB databases through S3 buckets between multiple servers in near real-time.
DNS zone management and control system.