A few months ago I went on a quest for a DNS server and was dissatisfied with current maintained projects. They were either good at adblocking (Blocky, grimd…) or good at specifying custom DNS (CoreDNS…).

So I forked grimd and embarked on rewriting a good chunk of it for it to address my needs - the result is leng.

• it is fast
• it is small
• it is easy
• you can specify blocklists and it will fetch them for you
• you can specify custom DNS records with proper zone file syntax (SRV records, etc)
• it supports DNS-over-HTTPS so you can stay private
• it is well-documented
• can be deployed on systemd, docker, or Nix

I have been running it as my nameserver in a Nomad cluster since! I plan to keep maintaining and improving it, so feel free to give it a try if it also fulfils your needs