It's been quite a long time I'm not following the recent development in dns scene, especially on the server software itself. In the past, I did try setting up my own BIND installation just to understand how all these things work. I tweet reminded me back:- Best #PowerDNS ni, siap http api. Auto SOA increment. #thorbaek — FryShadow (@FryShadow) August 15, 2017 So what else dns server software we have these days other than BIND 9 ? PowerDNS (as in tweet above). CoreDNS - now also a server type plugin of Caddy. It's a successor of SkyDNS. SkyDNS - SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd . Knot NSD