Credits

Author

DNZ is built and maintained by Alfian Lensun. For questions, feedback or anything else, get in touch at alfianlensundev@gmail.com.

Open-source projects

DNZ stands on the work of many open-source projects. Thank you to everyone who builds and maintains them. Each one keeps its own license, listed next to it.

DNS and networking

Project	What DNZ uses it for	License
Hickory DNS (`hickory-proto`, `hickory-net`)	Parsing and building DNS messages, DNSSEC signing and validation, upstream connections	MIT or Apache-2.0
Tokio	The async runtime under every server and client	MIT
rustls and tokio-rustls	TLS for DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPS, HTTPS and encrypted upstreams	Apache-2.0, ISC or MIT
ring	Cryptography for TLS and DNSSEC	Apache-2.0 and ISC
Quinn and h3	QUIC and HTTP/3 for DNS over HTTPS	MIT or Apache-2.0 / MIT
webpki-roots	The trusted root certificates	CDLA-Permissive-2.0
rcgen and x509-parser	Making and reading certificates	MIT or Apache-2.0
instant-acme	Let’s Encrypt and ZeroSSL certificates over ACME	Apache-2.0
mdns-sd	Finding other DNZ servers on the local network	MIT or Apache-2.0
socket2	Low-level socket options for the DNS listeners	MIT or Apache-2.0

Web, API and storage

Project	What DNZ uses it for	License
actix-web	The REST API and the dashboard server	MIT or Apache-2.0
SQLx	SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases	MIT or Apache-2.0
SQLite	The default database	Public domain
redis-rs	The Redis and Valkey backend	BSD-3-Clause
reqwest	Blocklists, threat feeds, Cloudflare, notifications and other outgoing HTTP	MIT or Apache-2.0
lettre	Email notifications over SMTP	MIT
russh and russh-sftp	Backups over SFTP	Apache-2.0
maxminddb	Reading GeoIP databases for GeoDNS and traffic maps	ISC
Serde	JSON and TOML for the API and configuration	MIT or Apache-2.0
clap	The `dnz` command line	MIT or Apache-2.0
argon2 and the RustCrypto crates	Password hashing, HMAC and digests	MIT or Apache-2.0
tracing	Logs	MIT
sysinfo	CPU, memory, disk and network figures on the dashboard	MIT
rust-embed	The dashboard built into the binary	MIT
zip	Backup archives	MIT
chrono and chrono-tz	Dates and time zones	MIT or Apache-2.0

DNZ Proxy

Project	What DNZ uses it for	License
Pingora	The HTTP proxy engine of DNZ Proxy	Apache-2.0
Moka	The response cache	MIT or Apache-2.0
mimalloc (Rust bindings)	The memory allocator	MIT

Dashboard

Project	What DNZ uses it for	License
Nuxt and Vue	The dashboard app	MIT
shadcn-vue and Reka UI	Components	MIT
Tailwind CSS	Styling	MIT
Vue Flow and Dagre	The topology map and its layout	MIT
VueUse	Composition utilities	MIT
vue-sonner	Toasts	MIT
uqr	QR codes for two-factor sign-in	MIT
html-to-image	Exporting the topology map as an image	MIT
Phosphor Icons	Icons	MIT
Simple Icons	Brand logos	CC0-1.0
Inter and JetBrains Mono	Fonts	SIL OFL 1.1

Data

Source	What DNZ uses it for	License
DB-IP IP to Country Lite	The default GeoIP database for GeoDNS and traffic maps. IP Geolocation by DB-IP.	CC BY 4.0
Public Suffix List	Finding the registered domain of a name, built into the binary	MPL-2.0
Tranco	The popular domains the threat detector trains on and never flags	Free to use, see the site
IANA RDAP bootstrap	Finding the RDAP server for domain expiry and domain info	Public

Blocklists and threat feeds

DNZ downloads these only when you turn them on under Filtering or Threats. They belong to their maintainers and keep their own licenses.

This page lists the projects DNZ uses directly. Each of them pulls in more crates and packages, and their licenses come with them. cargo tree in the source and web/package.json show the full list.

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