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nextdns vs PowerDNS: What are the differences?
What is nextdns? The next-generation DNS. Cloud-based private DNS service that gives you full control over what is allowed and what is blocked on the Internet. Think of it as a combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-hole®.
What is PowerDNS? A DNS server, written in C++ and runs on most Unix derivatives. It features a large number of different backends ranging from simple BIND style zonefiles to relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms. A DNS recursor is provided as a separate program.
nextdns and PowerDNS can be primarily classified as "DNS Management" tools.
PowerDNS is an open source tool with 1.77K GitHub stars and 525 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PowerDNS's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of nextdns
- Top notch privacy1
- Dns-Level Adblocker1
- DNS Filtering1
- Blazing fast1
- Free plan1
- API service0