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aardvark-dns

Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf

Latest version: 1.15.0 registry icon
Maintenance score
100
Safety score
99
Popularity score
77
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Security
  Vulnerabilities
Version Suggest Low Medium High Critical
1.15.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.14.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.13.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.12.2 0 0 0 0 0
1.12.1 0 0 0 1 0
1.11.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.10.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.9.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.8.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.7.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.6.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.4.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.3.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.2.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.1.0 0 0 0 0 0
1.0.3 0 0 0 0 0

Stability
Latest release:

1.15.0 - This version is safe to use because it has no known security vulnerabilities at this time. Find out if your coding project uses this component and get notified of any reported security vulnerabilities with Meterian-X Open Source Security Platform

Licensing

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Apache-2.0   -   Apache License 2.0

Not a wildcard

Not proprietary

OSI Compliant

aardvark-dns

Aardvark-dns is an authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. It can forward other requests to configured resolvers.

Read more about configuration in src/backend/mod.rs. It is mostly intended to be used with Netavark which will launch it automatically if both are installed.

aardvark-dns 0.1.0

USAGE:
    aardvark-dns [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Print help information
    -V, --version    Print version information

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config <CONFIG>    Path to configuration directory
    -p, --port <PORT>        Host port for aardvark servers, defaults to 5533

SUBCOMMANDS:
    help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    run     Runs the aardvark dns server with the specified configuration directory

MSRV (Minimum Supported Rust Version)

v1.76

We test that Netavark can be build on this Rust version and on some newer versions. All newer versions should also build, and if they do not, the issue should be reported and will be fixed. Older versions are not guaranteed to build and issues will not be fixed.

Build

make

Run Example

RUST_LOG=trace ./bin/aardvark-dns --config src/test/config/podman/ --port 5533 run

Configuration file format

Contributing