dnsdist Self-Hosted DNS Load Balancer

Explore this developer service’s free allowance, critical restrictions and official documentation before deploying.

INCLUDED FREE ALLOWANCE

GPLv2 self-hosted DNS-aware traffic load balancing, backend health checks, abuse/DoS filtering and Prometheus/HTTP metrics; no vendor-side DNS request quota.

Plan details

Plan: Ongoing free allowance
Credit card: Not required
Commercial use: Allowed
Added to directory (UTC): 2026-10-27
Last checked: 2026-10-27

Important restrictions

dnsdist is a DNS proxy/load balancer, not a hosted authoritative DNS service or standalone resolver; requires configured upstream DNS backends, infrastructure and secure operations. GPL obligations apply; commercial support is separate.

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